Polonism
Polish loanwords
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Polonisms are loanwords from Polish into other languages.
Polonisms are the second largest group of loanwords in Ukrainian. Polish also served as a mediator of borrowings from German into Ukrainian (for example, 'to cost': Ukrainian: 'koshtuvaty', from Polish: 'kosztować', from German 'kosten')[1]
In Lithuanian language, Polonisms are much more recent stratum than borrowings from East Slavic (Ruthenisms), as Lithuanians made close contact with East Slavs than with Poles.[2]