The names of coffins in the polish funeral industry

Abstract

The aim of the article is to analyze semantic names of coffins. Onomastic material includes 102 names taken from the funeral home web pages and from the survey that was carried out by people working in funeral industry. The collected material comes from the period 2019–2022. The analyzed names of coffins were classified into 12 meaning groups. Out of them the most popular are the names originating from mythology, e.g. “Trumna Hades”, shape of the products, e.g. “Trumna Łodka” or even from particular countries, e.g. “Trumna Amerykanka” that were created through the process of transonimisation or onimisation. In article the author tries to create a typology of the coffin names that were produced in Poland.