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    Aleksander Brückner (Polish pronunciation: [alɛkˈsandɛr ˈbryknɛr]; 29 January 1856 – 24 May 1939) was a Polish scholar of Slavic languages and literature...
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    "family", "birth", "origin", "clan", but also "yield", "harvest". Aleksander Brückner also notes the similarity of the name to the Avestan word rada-,...
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    "Dwell in Nya" ("bydlić w Nyi") collected by Polish ethnographer Aleksander Brückner. In recent years, the confidence in the authenticity of Niya has...
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    the etymology of the word is unclear. After strong criticism from Aleksander Brückner, researchers rejected her authenticity, but nowadays it is accepted...
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  • equivalent of Leshy. "Demonologia słowiańska". satanorium.pl (in Polish). Aleksander Brückner, Mitologia słowiańska i polska, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warsaw...
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    svarit', variti, "to melt", "to weld"). Some researchers, including Aleksander Brückner and Vatroslav Jagić, have suggested that the name stemmed from the...
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    Rędziny. Alfred Znamierowski, Heraldyka i weksylologia. p. 392. Aleksander Brückner, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego. "O gminie". redziny.pl (in...
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    Świętokrzyskie). They were discovered in striped parchment pieces in 1890 by Aleksander Brückner, in the binding of a Latin language codex, which contained the Acts...
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    rather than proper names in their own right. All of the above led Aleksander Brückner and later scholars to believe that Gąska and Stańczyk are merely...
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    similarly derives the word from archaic German Beiguss, "sauce". Aleksander Brückner has proposed German Bleiguss, "piece of lead", as a possible source...
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