The Hungarian word gyenge ‘weak, feeble, powerless’ and its Slovak (Slavic) cognates

Autori

  • Gabriella Juhász Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Faculty of Humanities, Doctoral School of Linguistics, Budapest, Hungary

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2024-0037

Kľúčové slová:

etymology, loanwords, Slavic languages, Slovak language, Slavic–Hungarian language contacts

Abstrakt

Šimon Ondruš’s wide scope of linguistic interests included the etymology of Hungarian words. In a ten-part series of articles published in the 2004 and 2005 issues of the journal Slovenské pohľady na literatúru, umenie a život, he published entries of varying lengths on the etymologies of more than a 100 Hungarian words, including proposed etymologies of some words of unknown origin. One such Hungarian word is gyenge ‘weak, feeble, powerless’, which, according to Ondruš, is of Slovak origin. In a rather short article, he points out some facts that he believes prove this relationship, but Ondruš did not write a detailed etymology. The present paper reviews Ondruš’s arguments as well as those that can be found in the Hungarian literature about the origin of this word.

Sťahovanie

Publikované

14-03-2025

Ako citovať

Juhász, G. (2025). The Hungarian word gyenge ‘weak, feeble, powerless’ and its Slovak (Slavic) cognates. Jazykovedný časopis, 75(2), 207 – 217. https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2024-0037