Określenia zająca w polskiej i rosyjskiej terminologii łowieckiej

The paper uncovers the results of a query conducted in terminological resources related to the hare’s characteristics, and a subsequent comparison of achieved findings. The approach is semantically-oriented and consists of qualitatively and quantitatively processed Polish and Russian data. The emphasis is laid on a single species – the hare. To narrow down the size of the data submitted to analysis, nouns and adjectives describing qualitative characteristics of the hare have been given priority. Thus, emphasis is laid on common hare-denoting nouns. Additional areas of interest extend over terms describing its age, sex, as well as its physical and mental features. The corpus comprises lexical units drawn from 19th and 20th-century dictionaries of hunting lexis. It extends over present-day terms, documented on web pages attended by hunters. The present investigation has benefited greatly from oral interviews and surveys carried out among Polish and Russian hunters coming from a variety of regions.