svangr

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Old Norse[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *swangaz (“thin, slim”).

Adjective[edit]

svangr

slender, slim, thin (especially of a horse)
hungry

Descendants[edit]

Icelandic: svangur
Faroese: svangur
Swedish: (dialectal) svong

References[edit]

“svangr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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