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Old English · noun

hungor

Part of speech
noun, masculine
Declension
strong a-stem
IPA
/ˈxun.ɡor/
[ˈhuŋ.ɡor]
Syllables
ˈxun · ɡor (2 syllables)
Modern English
hungerfamine

Meaning

  1. hunger

    Æfter þǣm Rōmeburg ġetimbred wæs V hunde wintrum ⁊ XXXIII, Hannibal, Pena cyning, besǣt Saguntum Ispania burg...⁊ þǣr wæs sittende eahta mōnaþ, oþ hē hīe ealle hungre ācwealde, ⁊ þā burg tōwearp....

    533 years after Rome was built, Hannibal, king of the Carthaginians, laid siege to Saguntum, a city in Hispania...and he sat there for eight months, until he killed them all with hunger, and destroyed the city...

    late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
  2. famine

    Swylċe ēac þissum tīdum cōm myċel hungor on Constantinopolim Crēca ealdorburh: ⁊ sōna wōl was æfterfyliġende. Ġe ēac moniġe weallas mid seofon ⁊ fīfteġum tōrran ġehruron ⁊ ġefeollan ⁊ swylċe ēac moniġe ōðre ċeastre tōhrorene wǣron.

    And also at this time there was a great famine in the Greek metropolis of Constantinople; and a plague followed immediately after. Also many walls with fifty-seven towers fell and collapsed and many other cities fell to ruin.

    late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

Declension

Declension of hungor
SingularPlural
Nominative hungorhungras
Accusative hungorhungras
Genitive hungreshungra
Dative hungrehungrum

All forms (6)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz. Cognate with Old Frisian hunger, Old Saxon hungar, Old High German hungar, Old Norse hungr.

Descendants

hunger

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