sultr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *swultiz.

Noun

sultr m (genitive sultar or sults)

  1. hunger
  2. famine

Declension

Declension of sultr (strong i-stem, s and ar-genitives, singular only)
masculine singular
indefinite definite
nominative sultr sultrinn
accusative sult sultinn
dative sulti sultinum
genitive sultar, sults sultarins, sultsins

Note the dative sulti.

Descendants

  • Icelandic: sultur
  • Faroese: svultur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: svolt; (dialectal) svolte, svult, sult, sylt
  • Danish: sult
    • Norwegian Bokmål: sult
  • Gutnish: sult

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “sultr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
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