{"id":24165,"date":"2026-01-23T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=24165"},"modified":"2025-12-26T14:59:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T22:59:16","slug":"the-dictionary-of-polish-place-names-pomaski-kownaty-szwelice-parish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/24165","title":{"rendered":"The Dictionary of Polish Place Names \u2013 Pomaski-Kownaty (Szwelice Parish)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Dictionary of Polish Place Names (Nazwy Miejscowe Polski<\/em>) explains the origin of place names in Poland and details how the place name changed over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume IX of Nazwy Miejscowe Polski<\/em> lists one place called Pomaski-Kownaty. This entry is for a hamlet, formerly a village, which belonged to the Szwelice parish. Listings for Pomaski-Kownaty were found until 1967.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nazwy Miejscowe Polski<\/em> indicates that Pomaski-Kownaty was in the Szelk\u00f3w Gmina, Ostro\u0142\u0119ka Voivodeship in the years 1975-1998 and was located 6 kilometers southwest of Mak\u00f3w Mazowiecki. Mentions of the village include Cownaczsky’s<\/em> m\u00f3rg in 1448, Slasske borders, Cownaczske<\/em> and Swyelyczske in 1467, Kownathy<\/em> in 1487, Cownathy<\/em> in 1511, Pomaski Kownathi<\/em> in 1582, Pomask<\/em>i in 1783-84, Pomaski Kownaty<\/em> in 1827, Pomaski Kownaty<\/em> in 1839, Pomaski Kownaty<\/em> in 1887, and Pomaski-Kownaty<\/em> in 1967.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pomaski-Kownaty was formerly named Kownaty<\/em> from the name of a settlement called Kownata<\/em>, in the 1st person plural. From the 16th century, the village was called Pomaski-Kownaty<\/em>. See Pomaski Wielkie<\/em> about the first part of the name.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Source: Rymut, Kazimierz and Barbara Czopek-Kopciuch, eds., Nazwy Miejscowe Polski<\/em> (Place Names of Poland<\/em>) – Krakow 2013, Volume IX, page 136.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click the link for a PDF copy of the\u00a0Nazwy Miejscowe Polski<\/em>\u00a0entry for\u00a0Pomaski-Kownaty<\/a>. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Pomaski-Kownaty<\/strong>, the hamlet was listed until 1967, formerly a village, Ostro\u0142\u0119ka voivodeship, Szwelice gmina [in the years 1975-1998], 6 kilometes southwest of Mak\u00f3w Mazowiecki: Cownaczsky’s<\/em> m\u00f3rg [a m\u00f3rg is an area of land; Gerald Ortell’s book on Polish Parish Records states that in the Russian partition 1 m\u00f3rg = 1.388 acres] 1448 SHGMz(MK 4, 84); Slasske borders, Cownaczske<\/em> and Swyelyczske 1467 SHGMz(MK 5, 86); Kownathy<\/em> 1487 SHGMz(Ep. Il, 274v); Cownathy<\/em> 1511 SHGMz(Ep. 149, 161v); Pomaski Kownathi<\/em> 1582 \u0179Dz XVI 392; Pomask<\/em>i 1783-84 RejKor 517; Pomaski Kownaty<\/em> 1827 Tabella II 107; Pomaski Kownaty<\/em> 1839 MpKwat IV 2; Pomaski Kownaty<\/em> 1887 SG VIII 737; Pomaski-Kownaty<\/em> 1967 SM 899. – Formerly named Kownaty<\/em>, from the name of a settlement Kownata<\/em> SSNO III 115, in the 1st person plural. From the 16th century, Pomaski-Kownaty<\/em>; see Pomaski Wielkie<\/em> about the first part. Lithuanian.: ZMaz 303.     Urszula Bijak<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright \u00a9 2026 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dictionary of Polish Place Names (Nazwy Miejscowe Polski) explains the origin of place names in Poland and details how the place name changed over time. Volume IX of Nazwy Miejscowe Polski lists one place called Pomaski-Kownaty. This entry is for a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-6hL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24165"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24198,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24165\/revisions\/24198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}