Polonized

About a fifth are litsviny ('Lithuanians': see below), who are rapidly being polonized; thus "the future of the Belarusian minority in Poland will be increasingly shaped by its padlashy demographic component," ie, the "Podlasian Belarusians (padlashy in the Belarusian language), who live in the centre and south of Podlasie Province." ❋ Unknown (2005)

The same problem comes up in Polish too, though long term loans usually end up being polonized, though this can be upset if the loan violates traditional rules of phonology. ❋ Unknown (2004)

(Dictionary of foreign expressions and foreign language expressions) and if I put in a Polish word (for example błąd : mistake) I got a bunch of non-Polish words, some polonized to various degrees, like gafa that are semantically related. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In another search, they even polonized 'spleen' as 'splin', which I've never seen used to be a popular word in Poland, but I'd always seen it spelled spleen is łikend next? ❋ Unknown (2004)

Most Germans east of this line had been expelled, and the region had been thoroughly polonized. ❋ Unknown (2001)

For five centuries they were more or less polonized by the nobility and land-owning classes and even through the Church, and this process is not entirely at an end but is even reinforced by Russian pressure. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Many Germans lived in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and also many were polonized; Platter, von Wedel, Lelewel are only few examples, even one colonel of our cavalry was Juliusz Rómmel. ❋ Msmani (2008)

[Brian] is such a typical polon, [web] guy by day [wannabe rocker] by night. ❋ Anonymous (2003)

After the incredibly [draining] weekend with his hysterically [emotional friend], Adam needed to polon before the long [car ride] home with her. ❋ Nouseforaname (2006)

dude, the thought of [Margaret] Thather [on stilts] [gives] me such a polon!... ❋ Tit_tassle (2005)