Noun: hyge
Gender:
Sample Sentences
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Forþon is mīn hyġe ġeomor. (Therefore my thought is sad. (‘The Wife's Lament’))
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ne biþ him tō hearpan hyġe. (He has no desire/mind for the harp. (‘The Seafarer’))
Nouns inflected like hyge
hyge,
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *hugi, cognate with Old Saxon hugi, Old High German hugu, hugi, Old Norse hugr, Modern Norwegian hug, Modern Swedish håg, Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌲𐍃 (hugs). See: Old Norse Nouns '
hugr', Swedish Nouns '
håg', Gothic Nouns '
𐌷𐌿𐌲𐍃'.
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