Zemplínske dial. chiňar "človek s príliš nízkou telesnou hmotnosťou; chorý, chudorľavý človek": príspevok k štúdiu inoslovanských súvislostí slovenskej nárečovej lexiky
Zemplín dial. chiňar „a person with too low body weight; frail, sickly person“: contribution to the study of the inoslavic contexts of Slovak dialect lexis

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the etymology of Slovak dial. chiňar "a person with too low body weight; frail, sickly person", documented in the Zemplín dialect of Eastern Slovakia (cf. also the surnames Chiňar, Chiňár, Chyňar attested in the Zemplín region). In the author’s opinion, the word may be interpreted etymologically as an original nomen agentis ("a person who leans, bends down, etc.", thence probably "a person with a bent posture" > "infirm, sickly, frail person [with low body weight]") derived from an otherwise unattested Slovak *chýňať (sa) (Zemplín dial. *chiňac (še)) as an imperfective-iterative of Slovak *chynúť (sa), Zemplín dial. *chinuc (še) "to lean, bend" < (Proto-)Slavic *chynǫti (cf. Polish chynąć, Russian dial. xinút‘-sja "to lean, bend"). The present etymological note also illustrates the importance of dialectal lexicon for the research into the autochthonous component in the vocabulary of Slovak which should be studied against a wider Slavic background.

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