Kto świętuje święta Boże, temu Pan Bóg dopomoże... Święta polskie we frazeologii i paremiologii dawnej i współczesnej
Elżbieta Skorupska-Raczyńska
Uniwersytet Szczeciński
Abstract
For centuries, religious festivals have played an important culture-creating
role in the Polish society. They also refer to the time around the festival
seasons. The social importance of the holy days is reflected by a large number
of phrasemes and proverbs found in dictionaries of the Polish language and
paremiographic collections. The author has reviewed various lexicographic
sources and selected several dozen phrasemes related to religious festivals in
general as well as over 200 proverbs related to the most important Roman
Catholic festivals i.e. Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Pentecost and Corpus Christi.
The analysis shows that most of the proverbs relate to Christmas (63%), some of
them to Easter (23%), Epiphany (7%) and Pentecost (5.5%), and few are connected
to Corpus Christi (1.5%). The largest group of the studied proverbs refers to the
weather and economy, few of which are actually in use today. Based on simple
syntactic structures and grammatical rhymes, these proverbs once made it easier
for Poles to understand and interpret their world. Today, they are a part of the
Polish cultural heritage.
Schlagworte:
frazeologia, paremiologia, leksyka
