Language / Mam silnego kaca! Why is this genitive/dopełniacz? [34]

One sometimers hears: 'Daj młotka!' Is that OK?

Language / How to remember Polish words? [23]

The mention of foka reminds me of how some Poles pronounce the English word sheet. For instance in a hotel they migth say: 'I'd like sheet in my bed.'

Language / How to remember Polish words? [23]

[Moved from]: Add (Polish words) to favourites

Polish TV is broadcasting from time to time public-sevice messages urging people to add to favourites (dodaj do ulubionych) time-honoured Polish word that are being forgotten. As examples they give serwus, birbant, etc. This seems a backlash against the contamination of Polish with all the wows, sorki, high fives, dwa w jednym and other Anglo-crapola.

Genealogy / Janek Lachera - search for Information about my lost uncle [2]

LACHERA: known in Poland in this form as well as Lacher; probably from German Lacher (laugher, someone who laughs).

Genealogy / Genealogy-Bryski(Polish)~Pelc(Austria) [7]

BRYSKI: possibly topo tag from the village of Bryki or derived from old first name Brykcy or Brycjusz.

PELZ: Polish spelling of Pelz, German pet form of the first name Balthasar (by tradition one of the Three Kings who visited Baby Jesus).

Genealogy / Looking for Graiper family [8]

GRAJPER: There are a couple hundred people named Grajper living in the Lublin area of eastern Poland but whether this is the same family is hard to say. Anyway, Grajper is the way Poles would spell Graiper. The name is obviously of German or YIddish origin, perhaps an adaptation of the German wrod Gräber (digger).

Genealogy / Grandmother, surname Lipski (Katowice) [4]

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BUTRYN: Polonised version of the Lithuanian name Butrymas (no English equivalent).

LIPSKI: root-word lipa (linden or lime tree); topo nick for someone from Lipsk, Lipsko or similar (Lindenville).

PANEK: diminutive of pan (lord, master, sir), hence lording.

PAJEK: Possibly derived from paja (mouth, snout. yap) or pajk (dialectal variant of pająk = spider).

The -ek is common Polish diminutive and in rare cases patronymic ending; eg pies = dog, piesek = doggy; -ryn is not an ending but part of the Lithuanian name Butrymas..

The -ek and -ek are common Polish diminutive and in some cases patronymic endings; eg pies = dog, piesek = doggy; -ryn is not an ending but part of the Lithuanian name Butrymas..

Food / Cooking Polish kiszka [99]

Kaszanka/kiszka lovers check this out:
easteuropeanfood.about.com/od/polishsausages/r/kiszka.htm

Genealogy / Goszcz family ancestry?? [3]

GOSZCZ: possibly derived from such Old Polish first names as Gościmir or Gościsław; or a topo nick from such localities Goszcza, Goszacznów or similar.

Genealogy / Majewski/Maiewski - Guty [8]

MAJEWSKI: topo nick from Majewka (now in Ukraine) and numerous localities called Majewo in Russia; or patronymic: son of someone nickamed Maj (day- and month-based nicks were often used to indicate when someone had converted to Catholicism).

DYBIKOWSKI: topo nick from Dybki or Dybków; or patronymic tag (son of Dybik ); from verb dybać (to lie in wait, sneak up on, stalk).

News / FEMI-FASCISTS MARCH AGAIN IN POLAND [126]

Aboritons are NOT banned in Poland but regulated and restricted to justified, legally specified cases: rape, incest, deformed foetus, and danger to a woman's life or health.

The femmies want a pro-abortion situation with abortion on demand, on a whim, for conveience. Even for 14- year-olds without consulting their parents.
They are always on about so-called 'equal rights', but they do not believe the father should have a say in whetehr or not to exterrminate his unborn progeny. To have true equality (and not the thetorical propaganda variety the femmies bandy about), abortion (if it were legally allowed across the board) would have to require the written consent of both parents.

News / FEMI-FASCISTS MARCH AGAIN IN POLAND [126]

Femmies refer only to rabid, man-hating, foaming-at-the-mouth, pro-abortionist feminists, not womanhood. Most Polish women do not regard themselves as feminists and also bristle when the Dragon Lady trio of Środa,Senyszyn, Nowicka & Spółka appear on TV. There's even a joke going round -- 'I'm getting my wife a set of windscreen wipers for our TV set. When screechy old Senyszyn comes on, the Mrs spits so much you can't see a bloody thing!'

History / Should Poland be given ANY credit for ALLOWING Jews into Poland for 1000 years? [195]

Janusz Palikot of the non-megalomaniacally named (?!) Ruch Palikota (Palikot's Movement) recently said something to the effect that Poles should abandon their Polishness. So I reckon there are one-worlders in Poland as well. On second thought, Palikot will do or say anything to advance his politcial career.

Love / E-marriage - how successful among Poles? [21]

Just heard that Ukraine has a majro bride busienss and up to 140,000 marriages are concluded each year, but only abotu 10% withstand the text of time. Maybe the Polish ones are more successful.

News / FEMI-FASCISTS MARCH AGAIN IN POLAND [126]

An abortion is the only medical procedure that destroys life, and the femmies talk about their 'right'. to it. Man-made laws included Hitler's that it was OK to kill Jews. Now it's sużpposedly OK to exterminate unwanted babies.

News / FEMI-FASCISTS MARCH AGAIN IN POLAND [126]

So you favour scrubbing Euro 2012 so they can use the money to set upt free abrotion-on-demand clinics, do you?

News / FEMI-FASCISTS MARCH AGAIN IN POLAND [126]

It's a shortcut to indicate the total intolerance, gender megalomania and rejection of compromise of the pro-feminsit agenda which often ignores the other 50% of the planet's inhabitants. Life is about human beings, not horse-blinkered, hurray-for-our-side genderism with libertine overtones. Fascists only saw what advanced their own cause with little concern for other groups. Poland's Środas, Nowickas and Senyszyns are femi-fascists to the core..

History / Should Poland be given ANY credit for ALLOWING Jews into Poland for 1000 years? [195]

Poland was not one of many Jewish strongholds before WW2, it was THE most important one. It was a bastion of Jewish rleligious and cultural life as well as economic development.

It all started after Jews got kicked out of one 'enlightened' Western country after another, and only Poland put out the welcome mat. Natrually there was rivlary and friction with the indigenous Polish population, but that was better than being burnt at the stake. Known for their business acumen and professional clout the Jews took over many professions, and when Poladn re-emerged as an indepdnet state in 1918, Jews disproportioantely controlled the legal and medical professions, academic community, busdiness circles, etc. This caused Polish resentment and inspired such slogans as 'swój do swego po swoje' (patronise Polsih businesses). The bottom line is: were it not for Poland, who knows if the Jews would have survived as an influential ethno-relgious community?

Genealogy / Looking for info. on my g. grandfather Isak Schachner's Family and the town Jordanow. [4]

According to a previous census there was only one person named Szachner (the Polish spelling) and he/she was living in the Skierniewice area SW of Warsaw. Jewish genealogical queries should be directed to: familyheritage@jhi.pl

BTW the type of business was a SK£AD MASZYN (machinery depot). The Polish letter '£' often gets mistaken by foreigners for a T, K, X or (in this case) E, especially when handwritten..

Genealogy / Last Name Gieda [5]

I do. You'll need it!

Genealogy / ANSZPERGIER, Michał. Born between 1900 and 1910 possibly around Lodz area. [4]

Should read: the Bavarian-Austrian dialect area...

Genealogy / Last Name Gieda [5]

GIEDA: derived from Hebrew name Gedeon meaning warrior. None too common in Poland but its users are centered in south-central Poland's Sieradz area.

Love / E-marriage - how successful among Poles? [21]

I know all kinds of get-rich-quick bride-mill schemers have made a pilke on this racket...my question is: have such marriages withstood the test of time* as well, worse or the same as those of couples who met in a more traditional setting.

*To define terms by 'withstanding the test of time' I mean have they produced happy, stable, loving families?

Love / Anglo-bride at left? Polish bride at right? [9]

I have heard that an exception are Polish military weddings. The uniformed groom is on the right so his right hand free to snap a spiffy salute without knocking the brides veil off.

BTW iwhile strolling down a street in Poland is it customary for the man to walk on the kerbside or is it 'the lady on the right' at all times?

Genealogy / Strzelecki, Gajewski, Letkiewicz, Piatek surnames - tracking my Great-Grand-mothers Family [10]

WOJTASIK: traceable e to both Wojtek (pet name for Wojciech = Adalbert) and wójt (village mayor). In both cases it looks to be a patronymic tag (rough English equivalents: Alson and Mayorson respectively).

For more information on the Wojtasiks please contact me.

Genealogy / Looking for relatives of Anna Rutkowska from Augustow [5]

RUTKOWSKI: root-word ruta (rue, a herb); most likely a toponymic tag from places such as Rutki, Rutkowszczyzna, Rutkowskie or Rutkowo (Rueville, Rueton, etc.).

Genealogy / Searching for info on my Grandfather, Kolata [17]

My hunch is that the arriving immigrant indicated Zembrzyce as his home village and the Ellis Island official wrote down what he thought he had heard as Jembrzyec. That was a common occurrence in the days of mass immigration from occupied Poland.