nälkä

Finnish

pronunciation
Definitions
  • hunger
  • (idiomatic) The expression olla nälkä literally: to have hunger translates into English as "to be hungry" in Finnish literally: "olla nälkäinen"

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *nälkä inherited from Proto-Uralic *ńäxli.

Origin

Proto-Uralic

*ńäxli

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