hungor – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of hungor

Noun: hungor
Gender: m

Nominative

Singularhungor
Pluralhungras

Genitive

Singularhungres
Pluralhungra

Dative

Singularhungre
Pluralhungrum

Accusative

Singularhungor
Pluralhungras

Sample Sentences

  • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
  • 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 Bede's Ecclesiastical History
  • 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.)

Nouns inflected like hungor

bealdor, firenleahtor, burgealdor, þunor, leahtor, ancor, aldor, ultor, hleahtor, hungor, otor,

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. See: Old Norse Nouns 'hungr'.

Verbs referencing "hungor"

English Nouns hunger, Middle English Nouns hunger, Old Norse Nouns hungr, Middle English Nouns hungere, Middle English Nouns hungre.

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