Słownik prasłowiański, T. XI

Słownik prasłowiański [Proto-Slavic Dictionary] is a work which combines features of an etymological dictionary and a study on the comparative history of the Slavic languages. The aim of its authors, who based on source materials from all Slavic languages, is to reconstruct the full lexical resource of the language used by the Slavic peoples immediately before the disintegration of the Proto-Slavic language community into individual languages (c. 7th–8th century AD). The origins of the Dictionary date back to 1954, and its initiator was Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński. The first eight volumes were prepared under the auspices of the Linguistics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences at the Department, then the Institute of Slavic Studies (Instytut Słowianoznawstwa, in 1992 renamed as Instytut Slawistyki), Polish Academy of Sciences. They were published in 1974–2001 by the Ossolineum publishing house in a print version (the electronic version is available in the RCIN repository at https://rcin.org.pl/dlibra/publication/6907). Their editor was Franciszek Sławski. After a long break, the Institute of Slavic Studies published Volume 11 of the Dictionary, which contains a part of entries beginning with the letter K: Kǫ–Ky. It was prepared under the National Programme for the Development of Humanities (NPRH, Grant No. 11H 16 0266 84) at the Kraków centre of the Institute. Edited by a team led by Mariola Jakubowicz, this volume is the first one in the series which is published in a small number of print copies and in pdf format, and is also available as a database at https://praslow.ispan.edu.pl. At the same time, all previously used source abbreviations were collected and published in a separate appendix entitled Zintegrowany wykaz skrótów do tomów I–VIII, X i XI [Integrated List of Abbreviations for Volumes 1–8, 10 and 11].