Abstract

This article is an attempt to present the formal and genetic nominative mechanisms in the new nomenclature of dishes, beverages, and foods in the Polish language. The author adopts a comparative perspective, making the description of these mechanisms in the monograph Studia nad słownictwem kulinarnym we współczesnej polszczyźnie (Studies on the culinary vocabulary in the contemporary Polish language) of 2005 the basis for her review. The contemporary material comes from two online lexicographical sources that are being developed on an ongoing basis. An analysis of the formal and genetic structure of the most recent names of dishes, beverages, and foods with the structure of the analogous lexical and semantic fi eld from almost 20 years ago leads to the conclusion that the nominative mechanisms are characterised by flexible stability, and the predominance of the activity of the word-formation system over the importation of foreign lexemes that is observed currently (in contrast to the early 21st century) results from extralinguistic changes.