Etymology

hungry

hun·gry
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Today it means: Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food. Full definition →

Middle English hungry ← Old English hungriġ ← Proto-West Germanic *hungrug
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*hungrugaz“hungry”
  2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*hungrug
  3. Old English · inherited fromhungriġ
  4. Middle English · inherited fromhungry
  5. English todayhungry

From Middle English hungry, from Old English hungriġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hungrug, from Proto-Germanic *hungrugaz (“hungry”); equivalent to hunger + -y. Cognate with West Frisian hongerich (“hungry”), Dutch hongerig (“hungry”), German hungrig (“hungry”), Swedish hungrig (“hungry”), Icelandic hungraður (“hungry”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.