Talk:svelte

I find it interesting that "svelte" is an old-fashioned Norwegian word for "starvation" / "to starve". I am not claiming any etymologic connection, though. — This unsigned comment was added by 80.239.11.97 (talk) at 13:29, 25 July 2005.

And in Swedish it's not even old-fashioned - it is *the* word for "to starve" (though spelled svälta, but that's the regular spelling change when moving from Norwegian to Swedish). Yes, I also made the same association when I saw this word. \Mike 13:23, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

In my humble opinion these interesting factoids belong to the article itself. Etymology is sexy regardless whether real or imagined. 85.76.79.185 07:30, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

However, the Swedish and Norwegian verbs and the Danish (deprecated template usage) svelte are not related to English svelte, but as descendents of Old Norse (deprecated template usage) svelta they are cognates with English swelter and to swelt (“to die”), whereas svelte is of Romance/Latin origin (Latin vello (“to pick, pluck”)). The uſer hight Bogorm converſation 12:23, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

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the sound file is not correct. it is too short so you can't hear it. — This unsigned comment was added by 165.123.179.80 (talk) at 20:32, 30 October 2006.

It plays just fine for me. Did you click on the "?" and make sure you have to needed codecs for it? --Connel MacKenzie 20:39, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

skinny?

Since when does skinny have negative connotations? The usage note could use some rewording, to convey that "slender" and "svelte" have positive connotations. --Connel MacKenzie 20:41, 30 October 2006 (UTC)