svangr

Old Norse

Etymology

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

Adjective

svangr

  1. slender, slim, thin (especially of a horse)
  2. hungry

Descendants

  • Icelandic: svangur
  • Faroese: svangur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: svang; (dialectal) svang’u, svång’e
  • Swedish: (dialectal) svong

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “svangr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
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