different between hunt vs hant

English

Etymology

From Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian (“to hunt”), from Proto-Germanic *hunt?n? (“to hunt, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *kend- (“to catch, seize”). Related to Old High German hunda (“booty”), Gothic ???????????????????? (hunþs, “body of captives”), Old English h?þ (“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): /h?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

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.

   • Esau went to the field to hunt for venison.

   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall

     Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.

   • 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 police are hunting for evidence.

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.

   • He hunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the country.

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.

Derived terms

• hunt where the ducks are
• that dog won't hunt

Translations

Noun

hunt (plural hunts)

1. The act of hunting.
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

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

Noun

hunt m

1. dog

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Estonian

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

• “hunt” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [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

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, Honk

    Hunsrik: Hund

    Kölsch: Hunk, Hungk

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

English

Etymology 1

See haunt.

Noun

hant (plural hants)

1. (US, colloquial, chiefly African-American Vernacular) A ghost; a supernatural being.
   • 1907, Harold Bell Wright, New York: A.L. Burt, The Shepherd of the Hills, Chapter I, p. 20,^[1]

     “ […] Say, Mister, did you ever see a hant?”

     The gentleman did not understand.

     “A hant, a ghost, some calls ’em,” explained Jed.

   • 1934, Cecile Hulse Matschat, Suwannee River: Strange Green Land, New York: The Literary Guild of America, Chapter Three, p. 52,^[2]

     […] he shivered as though a hant had touched him with its ghostly fingers, for night was near and he was alone in a depth of the swamp where he had never been before.

   • 1967, Richard M. Dorson, American Negro Folktales, Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett, “Spirits and Hants,” p. 213,^[3]

     The term “hant” covers all malevolent and inexplicable sights and sounds. Primarily hants protect buried treasure and linger about ghoulish death spots.

   • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 22, p. 140,^[4]

     Naturally, I believed in hants and ghosts and “thangs.” Having been raised by a super-religious Southern Negro grandmother, it would have been abnormal had I not been superstitious.

Etymology 2

Contraction

hant

1. Pronunciation spelling of hadn’t.

Anagrams

• -anth, Hnat, Nath, Than, tahn, than

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German hant, from Old High German hant. Cognate with German Hand, English hand.

Noun

hant f (plural hénte, diminutive héntle)

1. (Sette Comuni) hand

Declension

Derived terms

• drukhan de hénte
• hàntafa ?

References

• “hant” 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

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?nt]

Noun

hant (plural hantok)

1. clod (lump of earth)
2. grave (place of burial)

Declension

Derived terms

• hantol

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch hant

Noun

hant f

1. hand
2. person
3. side

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: hand
• Limburgish: handj
• Zealandic: and

Further reading

• “hant”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “hant”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *handu.

Noun

hant f

1. hand

Inflection

Alternative forms

• ande (in compounds)

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: hant
  • Dutch: hand
  • Limburgish: handj
  • Zealandic: and

Further reading

• “hant”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *handu, whence also Old English hand, Old Norse h?nd, Gothic ???????????????????????? (handus).

Noun

hant f

1. hand

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: hant
  • Bavarian: Hond

    Cimbrian: hant

    Mòcheno: hònt

  • German: Hand
  • Hunsrik: Hand
  • Luxembourgish: Hand
  • Vilamovian: haond
  • Yiddish: ?????? (hant)

References

1. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014