Mechanizmy przejmowania wyrazów niemieckich w polszczyźnie południowokresowej

The article describes the mechanisms of taking over German words to the conspiracy dialect on the phonetic-flexible and word-forming level. German language borrowings account for a significant percentage of the vocabulary in the conspiracy. Different historical and geographical conditions of the area contributed to this. The mass settlement of Germans in the cities caused the German loans to become more and more numerous and took root unnoticed in the language. The Germanisms presented here show a different degree of dependence on their originals, usually making it difficult, and sometimes impossible, to indicate their sources, which was related to the fact that quite often the source of Polish borrowings were German bustling, environ mental or colloquial expressions.