Skrzydlate słowa Juliana Tuwima

The paper contains deliberations on the entries in a two-volume dictionary "Skrzydlate słowa" edited by H. Markiewicz and A. Romanowski marked as Tuwim’s winged expressions. The purpose of the analysis is to determine, whether all the entries included in the lexicon meet the criteria for winged words and to recreate the mechanisms that led to the transformation of Tuwim’s quotations into winged words. The research has shown that only a limited number of entries included in the analysed dictionary constitutes Tuwim’s winged words, while the remaining examples are widely known quotations from his works that are not considered to be language units. However the data included in the dictionary edited by Markiewicz and Romanowski has made it possible to examine the processes of transformation from quotations into winged words. The processes were frequently accompanied by the exclusion of components that are superfluous from the perspective of communication and less frequently – by the modification of the prototypes’ meaning. Other secondary sources in relation to Tuwim’s texts have also contributed to the transformation of Tuwim’s quotations into winged words. Tuwim’s quotations that “have taken wings”, especially the ones that are most productive in modern Polish, are subject to further transformations.