blutrünstig

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German bluotrünstec, bluotrunsec (“strongly bleeding”), derived from bluotruns (“strongly bleeding wound”), from bluot (“blood”) + runs (“flow of water”), the latter being related with German rinnen (“to run”, of a fluid). Analysable in modern German as Blut (“blood”) +‎ Runse (“bed of a mountain stream”) +‎ -ig. The word Runse is restricted to Alpine regions, however, and otherwise widely unknown. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbluːtˌʁʏnstɪç/ (standard) IPA(key): /-ˌʁʏnstɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland) Hyphenation: blut‧rüns‧tig === Adjective === blutrünstig (strong nominative masculine singular blutrünstiger, comparative blutrünstiger, superlative am blutrünstigsten) (of a person or animal) bloodthirsty (eager for bloodshed) Synonyms: blutdürstig, mordlustig (of an event) bloodthirsty (involving a lot of bloodshed that is caused by people or animals) (of a text or film, or its maker) gory; bloodthirsty (relishing in the depiction of bloodshed) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Blutrünstigkeit === Further reading === “blutrünstig” in Duden online