åtrå

Swedish

noun

Definitions

desire; want

Etymology

Compound from Swedish å (river, stream, creek, on, in, at) + Swedish trå (desire)inherited from Old Norse þrá (longing, desire, a throe, struggle).

Origin

Old Norse

þrá

Gloss

longing, desire, a throe, struggle

Concept

Semantic Field

Emotions and values

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

`Kanji`

欲

Emoji

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

å Norwegian Bokmål
*þrawō Proto-Germanic
Borgå Swedish
Svartån Swedish
trå Swedish
Åbo Swedish
å Swedish
å andra sidan Swedish
trå Norwegian Nynorsk
å Norwegian Nynorsk
þrá Old Norse
þrá Icelandic
trå Westrobothnian
thraa Old Danish
trå Norn