English
ahungered
Ahungered comes from Middle English a-hungred.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500a-hungred
- Englishearliest quotation 1849ahungered
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500a-hungred
- Englishearliest quotation 1849ahungered
Earliest quotation: 1849, Currer Bell pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë, Old Maids: “To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not…”
Formed from a- + hungered
Proto-Indo-European *uds- ‘up, out’
Proto-Germanic *uz- ‘out-’
Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- ‘up, out, over’
English a-
Every English word from Middle English a-hungred
Today it means
adj Pinched with hunger; very hungry.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English a-hungred / ahungered