The subject matter of the article is the problem of the dying dialectal words. The author of the article found such words, used only by elderly people, in the dictionary of M. Kucała Porównawczy słownik trzech wsi małopolskich (The comparative dictionary of three villages of Little Poland) (Kucała 1957) and compared them with the adequate material in some Polish dialectal dictionaries. The author noticed the occurrence of various types of such words