Noun: hunger
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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Mani þusen hi drapen mid hungær. (Many thousands they overcame with hunger.) [p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 8 February 2018:]
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If hungur riſiþ in þe lond and peſtilence and ruſt and wynd diſtriynge cornes and a locuste and bꝛuke comeþ and if enemyes biſegen þe ȝatis of þe citee aftir þat þe cuntreis ben diſtried and al veniaunce and ſikenesse oppꝛeſſiþ[…] (If hunger rises in the land, and pestilence, rust, wind, destroying grain, and locusts and their young come, and if enemies besiege a city's gates after the city's surrounds are ruined, and when any destruction and disease oppresses (people) […]) [a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “2 Paralipomenon 6:28”, in Wycliffe's Bible:]
Nouns inflected like hunger
syment,
cristened,
savete,
savyne,
sandal,
whelere,
scuage,
scluse,
sclise,
sclave,
schyft,
schuit,
schite,
schort,
schold,
schern,
smothe,
smethe,
smerte,
slutte, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old English hungor, from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz. See: Old English Nouns '
hungor'.
Verbs referencing "hunger"
English Nouns
hunger.
Translations