The names of inheritances constituted in the old and middle Polish period a semantic group of a distinct morphological structure. They were derivatives from noun basis names of relationships, being the names of the inheritors ...

Formations with suffixes -ę, -ęta, -ąt originally appeared in the whole region of Poland, later the area was shrinking and today suffix -ę can only be found in the dialects of south-western Poland, while suffix -ak prevailed ...