Kinds of polonisms and their adaptation in the Old Belarusian Language (as exemplified by Oeuvre against Lutheran in the content of Suprasl’sky collection in the end of 16th century)

An article is dedicated to the main kinds of polonisms identified in a texts of religious polemical work Oeuvre Against Lutheran included in a manuscript of Suprasl’sky collection of the end of 16th century. A source of a factual basis is the text of Oeuvre Against Lutheran published in the series Monuments of Polemical Literature in the West Rus’ (1903). A brief introduction of Belarusian linguistic studies dedicated to the issues of Belarusian and Polish language interrelationship, as well as a specification of the semantic satiation of term polonism precedes the description of polonisms in the text. In addition, the conclusion of the change of the term as applied to the different periods of history of Belarusian language is drawn. The text of the work includes language borrowings from Polish of different levels: phonetical, word-forming, morphological, syntactic and lexical polonisms. The description of some of them composes the most of the article. It is dedicated, that genetic proximity determining similarities of vocabulary, grammatical and word-forming systems of the Old Belarusian and the Polish languages does not allow unequivocally determine many word forms. The characteristic of many forms of polonisms is provided with a short description of adaptation methods in an appropriate subsystem of the Old Belarusian language. In the end, the conclusion of necessity of developing new methods to study Belarusian-Polish interrelationship in historical aspects is drawn.Беларускі дзяржаўны універсітэт25127