1. Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, [email protected] 2. School of Information, University of California, Berkeley, [email protected] 3. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, [email protected] 4. School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, [email protected]...

The article is a lexical and historical-etymological study of the brykała/brykacz unit, recognized for example in ethnographic sources, as Krakow regionalism. author, reviewing various sources from linguistics, ethnography, history cultural history, well military, considers four aspects functioning this lexeme Polish language: semantic, geographical, social (first part article) etymological (se...