Walory finansowe w Dykcjonarzu Michała Amszejewicza

In 1859, the first book edition of the Dykcjonarz zawierający: wyrazy i wyrażenia z obcych języków polskiemu przyswojone [Dictionary of words and expressions borrowed from foreign languages] compiled by Michał Amszejewicz was published in Warsaw. It was the first large (more than 15,000 entries) dictionary of foreign words in the history of Polish lexicography. Its metalexicographical shape (the arrangement of entries, the order of meanings within an entry, the system of explanation, the system of qualification, etymological clues, examples of usage) has become a model eagerly used by successive dictionaries and lexicographers until our modern times. The authors of the Słownik wileński [Vilna Dictionary], published in 1861, were the first to copy the work of Michał Amszejewicz (without disclosing the source). In the dictionary we find mainly professional vocabulary, including a rich collection of names of financial instruments, circulating and historical, presented precisely and in detail in terms of their meaning and market value.