The article aims at presenting and discussing several similar words with different meanings in Polish dialects, yet commonly known and used by Polish speakers in the South-Eastern Borderlands. Dictionary research and extensive material documentation show that the words hurba, hurma, ujma are well embedded in the vocabulary resources of respondents who use southern Polish in the South-Eastern Borderlands on a daily basis. Centuries of Polish–Ukrainian contacts have influenced a number of linguistic processes. Direct contacts among the bilingual population enabled a gradual, mutual, usually relatively unconscious acquisition of various linguistic features (including dialectal ones), especially when it comes to vocabulary.
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