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sultur.

hunger, starvation

6 characters2 syllables approx.Íslenska language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈsʏl̥tʏr]

  1. hunger, starvation

    masculine · no-plural
Where this word comes from

From Old Norse sultr (“hunger, famine”), from Proto-Germanic *swultiz (“hunger, death”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to smoulder, burn”). Cognate with Danish sult (“hunger, starvation”), Old English swylt (“death”).

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