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anubis   
5 May 2009
Love / Polish Pet Names For Girls. [156]

Compilation of polish pet names for girls by the poet/satirist Andrzej Waligórski:

Kotuś, Pieseczek, Chrabąszczyk, Myszka,
Pchełka, Jagniątko, £asiczka, Liszka,
Chrząszczyk, Motylek, Krówka, Biedronka,
Kureczka, Kózka, Wróbelek, Stonka,
Jeżyk, Słowiczek, Słoniczka, Muszka,
Miś, Karaluszek, Świerszczyk, Papużka,
Pszczółka, Jabłuszko, Agrest, Malinka,
Jagódka, Gruszka, Śliwka, Jeżynka,
Różyczka, Bratek, Goździk, Lilijka,
Chaber, Stokrotka, Bzik, Konwalijka,
Burak, Buraczek, Groszek, Marchewka,
Seler, Pietruszka, Por i Brukiewka,
Dzionek, Dzioneczek, Gwiazda, Gwiazdeczka,
Słonko, Słoneczko, Drożynka Mleczna,
Psipsia, Kruszynka i jeszcze parę
- to są imiona Mojej Starej.
anubis   
16 Aug 2009
Language / -ski/-ska, -scy/ski, -wicz - Polish surnames help [185]

Polish surnames ending in -icz indicate roots in the eastern part of Poland - what is now Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine. As for Jewish names w. same ending - the Jewish pale of settlement in czarist Russia was located in those regions, hence the surnames.