vattuskräck
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish vattu (“water”) + skräck (“fear”), borrowed from German wasserscheu (“fear of water”), named after the afflicted's inability to swallow liquid.
Noun
vattuskräck n
- (archaic, medicine) rabies
- (archaic, pathology) hydrophobia, as a symptom of rabies
Synonyms
- rabies (“rabies”)
- hydrofobi (“hydrophobia, rabies”)
- hundgalenskap (“dog madness, rabies”) (archaic)
- lyssa (“rabies”) (obsolete)