%0 Journal Article %T Perceptual etymology. A social aspect of etymological research %A Stachowski, Marek %J Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis %V 2022 %R 10.4467/20834624SL.22.003.15478 %N Volume 139, Issue 1 %P 61-67 %K etymology, anthropology, sociolinguistics, linguistic terminology, language contact %@ 1897-1059 %D 2022 %U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/perceptual-etymology-a-social-aspect-of-etymological-research %X Perceptual etymology is a new term which is introduced here to refer to an anthropological rather than a purely linguistic interpretation of the origins of words. This author tries to show in what way different aspects of our understanding of etymology can be combined to create a coherent and possibly full image of a word.