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Artykuł dotyczy mało znanego aspektu działalności Kazimierza Nitscha - jego wpływu na rozwój polskiej etnologii. W opracowaniu wykazano, że wpływ ten miał dwojaki charakter: organizacyjny (praca w strukturach Towarzystwa Ludoznawczego; zorganizowanie Studium Słowiańskiego UJ, w którym utworzono Katedrę Etnografii Słowian; założenie czasopisma "Lud Słowiański" i wspieranie etnologów, np. Kazimierza Moszyńskiego i Bronisława Piłsudskiego) i naukowy (pobudzenie etnogeografii; dostarczenie w pracach językoznawczych materiału etnologom). The paper discusses a little known aspect of Kazimierz Nitsch’s work - his contribution to the development of Polish ethnology. It is shown that his influence had a dual character: organizational (work in the structures of the Polish Ethnological Society; creation of the Slavic Institute at the Jagiellonian University, which housed the Chair of Slavic Ethnography; foundation of the Lud Słowiański journal ("The Slavic Folk"); support for ethnologist, e.g. Kazimierz Moszyński and Bronisław Piłsudski), as well as scientific (stimulation of ethnogeography; providing data for ethnologists in linguistic works).

The interpretation of Tocharian A pratri ‘brothers’ is highly controversial. Some re-searchers interpret it as the nominative dual of the East Tocharian noun pracar (m.) ‘brother’ (= Toch. B procer ), others as an irregular form of the nominative plural, and yet others suggest that the form in question should be treated as a scribal error. The present author demonstrates that the collective noun *bhrātriyā (f. coll.) ‘brotherhood’ is securely attested in the Indo-European languages, cf. Attic Greek φρᾱτρίᾱ, dial. φᾱτρίᾱ (f.) ‘brotherhood; people of kindred race, tribe, clan’; Lithuanian brotija (f.) ‘circle of the most faithful friends’; Old Slovenian bratria , Old Chakavian bratrja , Old Russian братрия (f. coll.) ‘brotherhood’, Old Polish (rarely) bratrza (f. coll.) ‘brotherhood, brothers’ (< Proto-Slavic * bratr ь ja f. coll. ‘brotherhood’). Toch. A pratri ‘brothers’ derives from the same Indo-European archetype and represents a nomen collectivum used as the nominative plural. A similar phenomenon is attested in the Slavic languages, cf. Pol. bracia (nom. pl. ← f. coll.) ‘brothers’, earlier ‘brotherhood.’