hunt
English
Etymology
From Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian (“to hunt”), from Proto-West Germanic *huntōn (“to hunt, capture”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱent- (“to catch, seize”). Related to Old High German hunda (“booty”), Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (hunþs, “body of captives”), Old English hūþ (“plunder, booty, prey”), Old English hentan (“to catch, seize”). More at hent, hint. In some areas read as a collective form of hound by folk etymology.
Pronunciation
Verb
hunt (third-person singular simple present hunts, present participle hunting, simple past and past participle hunted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
- State Wildlife Management areas often offer licensed hunters the opportunity to hunt on public lands.
- Her uncle will go out and hunt for deer, now that it is open season.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 27:5–passageEsau went to the field to hunt for venison.:
- 1835, Alfred Tennyson, “Locksley Hall”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 100:
- Like a dog, he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, / Where the dying night-lamp flickers, and the shadows rise and fall.
- 2010, Backyard deer hunting: converting deer to dinner for pennies per pound, →ISBN, page 10:
- (transitive, intransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
- The little girl was hunting for shells on the beach.
- The police are hunting for evidence.
- c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- He after honour hunts, I after love.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
- 2004, Prill Boyle, Defying Gravity: A Celebration of Late-Blooming Women, →ISBN, page 119:
- My idea of retirement was to hunt seashells, play golf, and do a lot of walking.
- 2011, Ann Major, Nobody's Child, →ISBN:
- What kind of woman came to an island and stayed there through a violent storm and then got up the next morning to hunt seashells? She had fine, delicate features with high cheekbones and the greenest eyes he'd ever seen.
- (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
- to hunt down a criminal
- He was hunted from the parish.
- (transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
- Did you hunt that pony last week?
- 1711 July 15 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, July 4, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 104; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
- He hunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the country.
- (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
- He hunts the woods, or the country.
- (bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
- (bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
- (engineering, intransitive) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.
- 1995, Bernard Wilkie, Special Effects in Television, page 174:
- […] after which the inertia of the camera causes the motor to hunt with fluctuating speed.
Derived terms
- book-hunt
- bookhunter
- headhunt, head-hunt
- house-hunt
- Hunt
- hunt and peck
- hunt-and-peck
- hunt down
- hunted
- hunter
- Hunter
- hunteress
- hunting
- hunt out
- Huntress
- huntress
- Huntsman
- huntsman
- hunt the gowk
- hunt the slipper
- hunt up
- hunt where the ducks are
- hunt where the ducks were
- job-hunt
- proverbs hunt in pairs
- run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
- spider-hunting wasp
- still-hunt
- that dog won't hunt
- that old dog won't hunt
- you can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
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Noun
hunt (plural hunts)
- The act of hunting.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 134:
- Through male bonding, the subculture of the hunt caught up in the mystique of the chase, the hunting party became a military force, and men discovered that they need not stop at defense: they could go out to hunt for other people's wealth.
- A hunting expedition.
- An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
- A pack of hunting dogs.
Derived terms
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Anagrams
Bavarian
Alternative forms
Noun
hunt ?
References
- Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.
Cimbrian
Etymology
From Middle High German hunt, from Old High German hunt, from Proto-West Germanic *hund, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz. Cognate with German Hund, English hound.
Noun
hunt m (plural hunte, diminutive hüntle, feminine hünten)
- (Luserna, Sette Comuni) dog
- (Sette Comuni) firing pin
- (Sette Comuni) large iron clamp
- Coordinate term: klamara
Further reading
- “hunt” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Czech
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
hunt m inan
- Used in the phrase:
- být na huntě ― to be broke
- přivést na hunt ― to make broke
Declension
Synonyms
Derived terms
Further reading
- “hunt”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
- “hunt”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “hunt”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Estonian
Etymology
Most likely from Middle Low German hunt. Possibly an earlier loan from Proto-Germanic *hundaz.
Noun
hunt (genitive hundi, partitive hunti)
Declension
Declension of hunt (ÕS type 22e/riik, t-d gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | hunt | hundid | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | hundi | ||
genitive | huntide | ||
partitive | hunti | hunte huntisid | |
illative | hunti hundisse |
huntidesse hundesse | |
inessive | hundis | huntides hundes | |
elative | hundist | huntidest hundest | |
allative | hundile | huntidele hundele | |
adessive | hundil | huntidel hundel | |
ablative | hundilt | huntidelt hundelt | |
translative | hundiks | huntideks hundeks | |
terminative | hundini | huntideni | |
essive | hundina | huntidena | |
abessive | hundita | huntideta | |
comitative | hundiga | huntidega |
Synonyms
Mòcheno
Etymology
From Middle High German hunt, from Old High German hunt, from Proto-West Germanic *hund, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz (“dog”). Cognate with German Hund, English hound.
Noun
hunt m
References
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Old Dutch
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *hund.
Noun
hunt m
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
Further reading
- “hunt (I)”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *hund.
Noun
hunt m
Declension
case | singular | plural |
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nominative | hunt | hunta |
accusative | hunt | hunta |
genitive | huntes | hunto |
dative | hunte | huntum |
instrumental | huntu | — |
Descendants
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ʌnt
- Rhymes:English/ʌnt/1 syllable
- English lemmas
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- English transitive verbs
- English intransitive verbs
- English terms with usage examples
- English terms with quotations
- en:Engineering
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- Bavarian lemmas
- Bavarian nouns
- Sappada Bavarian
- Sauris Bavarian
- Timau Bavarian
- Cimbrian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *ḱwṓ
- Cimbrian terms inherited from Middle High German
- Cimbrian terms derived from Middle High German
- Cimbrian terms inherited from Old High German
- Cimbrian terms derived from Old High German
- Cimbrian terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Cimbrian terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Cimbrian terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Cimbrian terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Cimbrian lemmas
- Cimbrian nouns
- Cimbrian masculine nouns
- Luserna Cimbrian
- Sette Comuni Cimbrian
- cim:Dogs
- cim:Firearms
- cim:Tools
- Czech terms borrowed from German
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- Czech inanimate nouns
- Czech terms with collocations
- Czech masculine inanimate nouns
- Czech hard masculine inanimate nouns
- Estonian terms derived from Middle Low German
- Estonian terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian nouns
- Estonian riik-type nominals
- et:Mammals
- Mòcheno terms inherited from Middle High German
- Mòcheno terms derived from Middle High German
- Mòcheno terms inherited from Old High German
- Mòcheno terms derived from Old High German
- Mòcheno terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Mòcheno terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Mòcheno terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Mòcheno terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Mòcheno lemmas
- Mòcheno nouns
- Mòcheno masculine nouns
- mhn:Carnivores
- Old Dutch terms derived from Frankish
- Old Dutch terms inherited from Frankish
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- Old Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Dutch terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Dutch terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
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- Old Dutch lemmas
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- Old Dutch masculine nouns
- odt:Animals
- Old High German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old High German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old High German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old High German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Old High German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Old High German lemmas
- Old High German nouns
- Old High German masculine nouns
- Old High German a-stem nouns