Lexical Representations of the Concept of “SEN” (‘dream, sleep’) in the Onomasiological Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego Online

Abstract

The article provides a description of the Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego (Conceptual Dictionary of the Old Polish Language), available online (hereinafter also referred to as SPJS). It was edited at the Institute of the Polish Language of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków in the years 2011–2015 based on the printed eleven-volume Słownik staropolski (Dictionary of Old Polish) (hereinafter also referred to as SStp). It is a database for conducting onomasiological and other research on the oldest Polish vocabulary recorded from the 12^th century to the beginning of the 16^th century. The article also presents the results of the onomasiological analysis of continuous and discontinuous medieval lexical units representing the concept of SEN // DREAM, SLEEP in SPJS. It is one of 231 concepts of the SPJS conceptual structure. Within this concept, there are 19 discontinuous auto-semantic units and 86 continuous auto-semantic units. The conducted onomasiological analysis shows that they belong to 10 separate zones of the semantic field, each of which is complementary to the others. Most of the analysed words have survived to modern times in unchanged meanings, some of them are archaisms, and the rest are competence homonyms.