esmayao

Etymology
. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Doublet of

No conjugated forms of the possible verb desmayarse 'to be hungry' have been found. Most likely from the same root as and  but without the -dis suffix.

22-ii-1868 Jable (El Ómnibus, p.3) uses "estomagos desmayados" with the meaning of 'to be hungry', but later works differentiated between as 'faint' and esmayado as 'hungry'.

"Esmayalse" also attested

Adjective

 * 1)  famished, hungry. Mainly used in southern Spanish dialects.

Alternative forms

 * (it's a colloquial word and the origin isn't clear, leading to pronunciation spelling)
 * (without syncope)
 * (pronunciation spelling without syncope)