sultr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *swultiz.

Noun

sultr m (genitive sultar or sults)

1. hunger
2. famine

Declension

  Declension of sultr (strong i-stem, s and ar-genitives, singular only)

masculine	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	sultr	sultrinn
accusative	sult	sultinn
dative	sulti	sultinum
genitive	sultar, sults	sultarins, sultsins

Note the dative sulti.

Descendants

• Icelandic: sultur
• Faroese: svultur
• Norwegian Nynorsk: svolt; (dialectal) svolte, svult, sult, sylt
• Danish: sult
  • Norwegian Bokmål: sult
• Gutnish: sult

References

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