Studia Językoznawcze

Among words which are peculiarities of the (Old) Church Slavonic lectionary from the Old Testament (and at the same time being hapax legomena compared with the Old Church Slavonic lexis authenticated in old texts written before the turn of 12th and 13th century), the article points out those which – being the heritage from the Proto-Slavic era – belong or belonged to the Polish language vocabulary. It was examined whether or not, and to what extent this vocabulary appears in appropriate areas of Old Testament verses in Polish translations of the Bible – in Old Polish Bibles: Leopolita’s (1561), Rev. Wujek’s (1599) and Gdańsk Bible (1632), as well as in the contemporary – Biblia Tysiąclecia (The Millennium Bible). In connection with the discovered conformities, it was suggested that the lexical state of the (Old) Polish verses of the Bible may be recognised as an essential support in suggesting the affi liation of this peculiar vocabulary with the oldest form of an Old Testament lectionary – the unknown Cyrillo-Methodian original from the Moravian Mission period.