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hunt
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)
- (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:
- (transitive, intransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
- The police are hunting for evidence.
- (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.
- 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.
Derived terms
- hunt where the ducks are
- that dog won't hunt
Translations
Noun
hunt (plural hunts)
- The act of hunting.
- A hunting expedition.
- An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
- A pack of hunting dogs.
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Thun
Bavarian
Noun
hunt ?
- (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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ? Esperanto: hundo
- Luxembourgish: Hond
- Vilamovian: hund
- Yiddish: ????? (hunt)
- Alemannic German: Hund
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pursuing
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p??sju?.??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /p??su.??/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /p???u.??/
Verb
pursuing
- present participle of pursue
Noun
pursuing (plural pursuings)
- pursuit
- 1900, Edward Stephens, Infidelity Disarmed in a Reply to Lectures (page 23)
- And they need to be check'd in their erratic doings,
In their scholarly flights and whimsical pursuings.
- And they need to be check'd in their erratic doings,
- 1900, Edward Stephens, Infidelity Disarmed in a Reply to Lectures (page 23)
Anagrams
- usurping
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