svälta

Swedish

verb-irr

Definitions

(intransitive) to hunger, to starve (to be the victim of famine)
(transitive) to let hunger, to let starve (to refuse someone food)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish svælta inherited from Old Norse svelta inherited from Proto-Germanic *sweltaną (die).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*sweltaną

Gloss

die

Concept

Semantic Field

Time

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Emoji

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Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

*swel- Proto-Indo-European
*sweltaną Proto-Germanic
svelte Norwegian Nynorsk
sweltan Old English
svelta Old Norse
svelta Icelandic
svølta Faroese
𐍃𐍅𐌹𐌻𐍄𐌰𐌽 Gothic
*sweltan Old Dutch
sweltan Old Saxon
svælta Old Swedish
schwalth Crimean Gothic