Hunger

From Middle High German hunger, from Old High German hungar, from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhʊŋɐ/

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• Hyphenation: Hun‧ger

Hunger m (strong, genitive Hungers, no plural)

1. hunger

• hungrig
• Hungertuch, Hungersnot, Hungerwinter, Hungerhaken
• Bärenhunger, Löwenhunger, Mordshunger

• Schmacht

• “Hunger” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Hunger” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Hunger” in Duden online
• Hunger on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Hunger”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

From Middle Low German hunger, from Old Saxon hungar, from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz. Compare High German Hunger, Dutch honger, English hunger, Swedish hunger.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhʊŋːə(r)/

Hunger m (uncountable)

1. hunger

• Hungersnoot
• hungerig / hungrig