hunt

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

hunt

Wikipedia

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

• IPA^(key): /hʌnt/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʌnt

Verb

hunt (third-person singular simple present hunts, present participle hunting, simple past and past participle hunted)

1. (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:

2. (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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

     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.

3. (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.

   to hunt down a criminal

   He was hunted from the parish.

4. (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.

     The spelling has been modernized.

5. (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.

   He hunts the woods, or the country.

6. (bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
7. (bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
8. (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

Translations

Noun

hunt (plural hunts)

1. 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.

2. A hunting expedition.
3. An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
4. A pack of hunting dogs.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Thun

Bavarian

Alternative forms

• Hund

Noun

hunt ?

1. (Sappada, Sauris, Timau) dog

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)

1. (Luserna, Sette Comuni) dog
2. (Sette Comuni) firing pin
3. (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 , Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Hund.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

hunt m inan

1. Used in the phrase:

   být na huntě ― to be broke

   přivést na hunt ― to make broke

Declension

Synonyms

• mizina

Derived terms

Further reading

• hunt in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• hunt in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• hunt in Internetová jazyková příručka

Estonian

Estonian Wikipedia has an article on:

hunt

Wikipedia ^et

Etymology

Most likely from Middle Low German hunt. Possibly an earlier loan from Proto-Germanic *hundaz.

Noun

hunt (genitive hundi, partitive hunti)

1. wolf, grey wolf

Declension

Synonyms

• susi
• untsantsakas
• hall hunt

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

1. dog

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter , 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

1. dog

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: hont
  • Dutch: hond

Further reading

• “hunt (I)”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hund.

Noun

hunt m

1. dog

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: hunt
  • Alemannic German: Hund

    Alsatian: Hund

    Swabian: Hond

    Walser: hun, hund, hunn, hònn

  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: hunt

    Mòcheno: hunt

    Udinese: hunt

  • Central Franconian: Hond, Honk; Hongk; Hunk, Honk

    Hunsrik: Hund

    Kölsch: Hunk, Hungk

  • German: Hund
    • → Esperanto: hundo
      • Ido: hundo
  • Luxembourgish: Hond
  • Vilamovian: hund
  • Yiddish: הונט (hunt)