%0 Journal Article
%T Chosen valleys and couloirs of the Polish part of the Western Tatra Mountains from the perspective of linguistics and geomorphology
%A Jurczyńska-Kłosok, Agnieszka
%J Geographical Studies
%V 2021
%R 10.4467/20833113PG.21.007.14584
%N Issue 165
%P 7-22
%K landforms, valley, couloir, naming motivation, the Western Tatra Mountains
%@ 1644-3586
%D 2021
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/prace-geograficzne/article/wybrane-doliny-i-zleby-polskiej-czesci-tatr-zachodnich-w-perspektywach-jezykoznawczej-i-geomorfologicznej
%X The purpose of this article is an interpretation of 145 names of chosen valleys and couloirs of the Polish part of the Western Tatra Mountains. There are solely oronyms, which consist of two main components – valley or couloir and other lexemes that show various characteristics of their designations. The study has shown that the information on the topographic nature of an object that recorded in its name is sometimes not compatible with the given geographic term that assigned to the object. This problem can be shown on the example of names excerpted from the publication Rzeźba Tatr Polskich (1988) by Klimaszewski. These oronyms were compared with names excerpted from the monograph Polskie Tatry Zachodnie (1996) by Kunicki and Szczerba. The objective has been achieved using the classification of toponyms by Kornaszewski (1986) that shows how to discern the motivational meaning of toponyms.