{"id":24201,"date":"2026-01-25T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=24201"},"modified":"2025-12-28T02:43:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T10:43:54","slug":"the-dictionary-of-polish-place-names-pomaski-wielkie-szwelice-parish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/24201","title":{"rendered":"The Dictionary of Polish Place Names \u2013 Pomaski Wielkie (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 Wielkie. This entry is for a village which belongs to the Szwelice parish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nazwy Miejscowe Polski<\/em>\u00a0indicates that Pomaski Wielkie was in the Szelk\u00f3w Gmina, Ostro\u0142\u0119ka Voivodeship in the years 1975-1998 and was located 5.5 kilometers southwest of Mak\u00f3w Mazowiecki. Mentions of the village include: \u201cThe Duke gave Strachenycze to the said Pomaskys, heirs of We\u0142en, 10 manors around his area; heir of Pomasky<\/em> in (1414-25) 1456, Pomasky<\/em> in 1427, Pomasky<\/em> in 1436 and 1539, Pomasky<\/em> in 1483, Pomassky<\/em> in 1495, Pomaski<\/em> in 1514, Pomaski<\/em> in 1582, Pomaski w.<\/em> in 1783, Pomaski wielkie<\/em> in 1827, Pomaski Wielkie<\/em> in 1887, and Pomaski Wielkie, -mask -kich, pomaskowski<\/em> in 1971.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The name of the village of Pomaski comes from the personal name Pomaska<\/em> \u200b\u200b(: pomaza\u0107<\/em> ‘to anoint’), in the first person plural. From the 18th century, the name appears with a differentiating element: the adjective wielki<\/em> [great]. Pomaski<\/em> is the name of a so-called noble district in the area of \u200b\u200bwhich villages with the following names were established: Pomaski-Ja\u0142brzyki<\/em>, Pomaski-Kownaty<\/em>, Pomaski-Micha\u0142y<\/em>, Pomaski-Sikuty<\/em>, Pomaski-Zelki<\/em> (today Zelki D\u0105browne<\/em>) and Pomaski Wielkie<\/em>.<\/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, pages 136-137.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click the link for a PDF copy of the Nazwy Miejscowe Polski<\/em> entry for Pomaski Wielkie<\/a>. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Pomaski Wielkie<\/strong>, a village in the Ostro\u0142\u0119ka voivodeship, Szelk\u00f3w gmina, 5.5 kilometers southwest of Mak\u00f3w Mazowiecki: \u201cThe Duke gave Strachenycze to the said Pomaskys, heirs of We\u0142en, 10 manors around his area; heir of Pomasky<\/em> (1414-25) 1456 SHGMz (MK 3, 86 and 109); Pomasky<\/em> 1427 MkM I nr 535; Pomasky<\/em> 1436, 1539 Matr IV\/1, nr 6365; Pomasky<\/em> 1483 SHGMz (MK 6, 162); Pomassky<\/em> 1495 SHGMz (Ep. 15, 49v-50); Pomaski<\/em> 1514 SHGMz (PT 1, 88); Pomaski<\/em> 1582 \u0179Dz XVI 392; Pomaski w.<\/em> 1783 MpPerMz; Pomaski wielkie<\/em> 1827 Tabella II 107; Pomaski Wielkie<\/em> 1887 SG VIII 737; Pomaski Wielkie, -mask -kich, pomaskowski<\/em> 1971 UN 129, 49. – From the personal name Pomaska<\/em> \u200b\u200b(: pomaza\u0107<\/em> ‘to anoint’), in the first person plural, compare the first record. From the 18th century, the name appears with a differentiating element from the adjective wielki<\/em> [great]. Pomaski<\/em> is the name of a so-called noble district in the area of \u200b\u200bwhich villages with the following names were established: Pomaski-Ja\u0142brzyki<\/em>, Pomaski-Kownaty<\/em>, Pomaski-Micha\u0142y<\/em>, Pomaski-Sikuty<\/em>, Pomaski-Zelki<\/em> (today Zelki D\u0105browne<\/em>) and Pomaski Wielkie<\/em>. 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 Wielkie. This entry is for … 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-24201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-6il","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24201","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=24201"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24242,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24201\/revisions\/24242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}