%0 Journal Article
%T German Irrwisch ‘1. will-o’-the-wisp; 2. scamp, scallywag, imp’ and Polish urwis ‘scamp, scallywag, imp’.
%A Stachowski, Marek
%J Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
%V 2011
%R 10.2478/v10148-011-0021-5
%N Volume 128, Issue 1
%P 161-162
%K German, Polish, languages in contact, semantics
%@ 1897-1059
%D 2011
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/german-irrwisch-1-will-o-the-wisp-2-scamp-scallywag-imp-and-polish-urwis-scamp-scallywag-imp
%X 
	Even if the derivation of the meaning ‘scamp, scallywag, imp’ < ‘will-o’-the-wisp’ is generally imaginable (albeit not self-evident) it is assumed here that this change is actually based on addition of a foreign meaning to a German one, rather than on semantic evolution.