| dc.description.abstract | This article shows origins and attendance of foreign surnames in some parts of Wadowice
since the second half of the 18th century till the first half of the 20th century. Appearance of
foreign surnames in Wadowice and its regions is related to ethnically foreign colonization and
contacts with the population of the neighbouring countries. For this reason, there are signs
of German (most frequent), Latin, east Slavic, Czech and Slovak, Hungarian and even some
Spanish and Italian surnames. The analyzed surnames, genetically foreign, are motivated
by common-place words (expressions), names, ethnic names and names unadopted by the
Polish language. However, hybrid surnames with a foreign base and a Polish suffix are rare. | en_EN |
