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19 January 2026
Shining Maps
And today's language tour will take us to Tucholski Bora,
Fereta as a word for a long skirt turned out to be a word that the presence of which (in fact already rare) is characteristic of this region. Apart from Tuchola, Tuchola region and part of the secular part, we besides have Nakło over Notecia. At least that's interesting.
In a akin sense, due to the fact that as a large and alternatively worn skirt appears in the online dictionary of Borovian bustle. So I guess it's all right.
But why is that word? First thought — a debt from Germany. I don't think so. I was helped by the tiny Dictionary of the Gwar Polskie prof. Wronicz, who notes a fereta with a mention to the verse. Which means there may have been any kind of inoculation. Warm.
The verse, in turn, appears there in 2 meanings — either a sheet or a rag, possibly any cover on the outside. The first was to be utilized in Kresach and in south-eastern Małopolska, but the second is another lead - north-eastern Wielkopolska and confederate Pomerania. Warmer.
A long, worn skirt — any clothing on the outside, most likely from canvas. Makes sense if we consider the communicative of dress and the fact that skirts were the only onesThe lower part of women's clothes. So it was the only outer garment. Warmer.
The verse already appears in dictionaries, specified as Doroszewski (although already as archaism) where it is depicted as a word of sheet or sheet from a thick, carded canvas. WSJP notes it as a debt from the east — from Russian верета (wierieta). Personally, I'd say Russian. It burns.
Does this mean that we have rusticism in the Tuchol Bora? Yes and no. Fereta is derived from the mentioned veto, which in the Polish region has a very long history, due to the fact that it is recorded already in the 17th century, even before the partitions. Final However, it most likely leads to a spindle, or веретено in Old Russian. Hot.
