honger
See also: Honger
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɦɔ.ŋər/
Etymology 1
From Dutch honger, from Middle Dutch honger, from Old Dutch hunger, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz.
Noun
honger (uncountable)
- hunger
Adjective
honger (attributive honger, not comparable)
- hungry
Etymology 2
From Dutch hongeren (“to (suffer) hunger; to desire strongly”), from Middle Dutch hongeren, from Old Dutch hungeren.
Verb
honger (present honger, present participle hongerende, past participle gehonger)
- (intransitive, figuratively) to desire strongly, to hunger [+ na (for/after)]
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɦɔ.ŋər/
audio (file) - Hyphenation: hon‧ger
- Rhymes: -ɔŋər
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch honger, from Old Dutch hunger, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz.
Noun
honger m (uncountable)
- hunger
Derived terms
- hongerhormoon
- hongerig
- hongerloon
Descendants
- Afrikaans: honger
- Berbice Creole Dutch: hungru
- Skepi Creole Dutch: hunger
- →? Sranan Tongo: angri, hangri
- → Saramaccan: hángi, ángi
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
honger
- first-person singular present indicative of hongeren
- imperative of hongeren
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch hunger, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz.
Noun
honger m
- hunger
- famine
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: honger
- Afrikaans: honger
- Berbice Creole Dutch: hungru
- Skepi Creole Dutch: hunger
- →? Sranan Tongo: angri, hangri
- → Saramaccan: hángi, ángi
- Limburgish: hónger
Further reading
- “honger”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “honger (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Middle English
Noun
honger
- Alternative form of hunger
Westrobothnian
Etymology
From Old Norse hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz.
Noun
honger m
- Hunger.
- ję hæ da lidi a hongråm
- I have suffered from hunger
- ję hæ da lidi a hongråm
Verb
honger
- To hunger.
Derived terms
- hongru
- hångrøt
See also
- säugänes
- sujen
- sylt