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This article discusses the Polish name for buckwheat in the broader Slavic and European context. In Polish and in other Slavic and European languages, the motivation for naming buckwheat is most often connected to the origin of the plant itself. The names indicate that buckwheat was spread across the European continent primarily by the Greeks, Tatars, and pagans.
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plant names, semantic motivation, language contact, borrowings, calques
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