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