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 Duden online
• “Hunger” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Hunger”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
• Hunger on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

• hunger (Wiesemann spelling)

From Middle High German hunger, from Old High German hungar, from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz, from Proto-Indo-European *kenk-.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈhuŋa/
• Rhymes: -uŋa
• Syllabification: Hun‧ger

Hunger m

1. (uncountable) hunger (need for food)

   Ich hon Hunger ― I'm hungry (literally, “I have hunger”)

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

• honger (Föhr-Amrum)
• hunger (Mooring)

from Old Frisian hunger, from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz.

• (Sylt) IPA^(key): [ˈhʊŋɐ]

Hunger m

1. (Sylt) hunger