Ogólne nazwy złodzieja w dawnym żargonie przestępczym

Abstract

The article concerns the history of Polish criminal jargon. The author presented 13. names of thieves. He extracted linguistic material from 19th-century texts, but some of the collected units are much older. The author presented the provenance of the names (some comments are just suggestions, hypotheses). Among the names discussed are, for example: andrus, buchacz, labun, szawron, szemrany.

Keywords

• etymology
• lexis
• history of sociolect
• thieves’ jargon
• history of language