Hanys - definition of indigenous inhabitant of the former Prussian Upper Silesia . This Hanys native, but probably not defined as people outside the Black Silesia, which live in Silesia and the Silesian adopted culture.
word "Hanys" comes from the German named Hans. This word was suggested German Silesian origin. In Germany the term was Wasserpolaken, pejorative term inhabitants of Upper Silesia. In principle, the word was supposed to be offensive hanys term, however, has been assimilated by the inhabitants of Upper Silesia . [citation needed ]
semantically close words to hanysa are local and local, in the sense here (and not "beyond the river" or the Dąbrowa Basin, and the rest of the Polish - after Silesia from Altrajchu ", literally meaning" outside the German Reich "). Black Silesians of Silesia use the term " mountaineers", calling the inhabitants adjacent Basin and other parts of Dabrowski's Polish.
