FromMiddle Englishhunten, fromOld Englishhuntian(“to hunt”), fromProto-West Germanic*huntōn(“to hunt, capture”), possibly fromProto-Indo-European*ḱent-(“to catch, seize”). Related toOld High Germanhunda(“booty”),Gothic𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃(hunþs,“body of captives”),Old Englishhūþ(“plunder, booty, prey”),Old Englishhentan(“to catch, seize”). More athent,hint.In some areas read as a collective form ofhound byfolk etymology.

• IPA^(key):/hʌnt/

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hunt (third-person singular simple presenthunts,present participlehunting,simple past and past participlehunted)

1. (ambitransitive) 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 tohunt on public lands.

   Her uncle will go out andhunt for deer, now that it is open season.

   • 1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker, […],→OCLC,Genesis27:5–passageEsau went to the field tohunt for venison.:
   • 1835,Alfred Tennyson, “Locksley Hall”, inPoems. […], volume II, London:Edward Moxon, […], published1842,→OCLC,page100:

     Like a dog, hehunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, / Where the dying night-lamp flickers, and the shadows rise and fall.

   • 1981,Field & Stream, volume86, number 5, page107:

     Either the bird will be downgraded to "threatened" status — which means it can behunted — or it will be declared a nonspecies, as has already happened to all its taxonomic kissing cousins.

   • 2010,Backyard deer hunting: converting deer to dinner for pennies per pound,→ISBN, page10:
2. (ambitransitive) To try to find something; search (for).

   The little girl washunting for shells on the beach.

   The police arehunting for evidence.

   • c.1590–1591 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene i]:

     He after honourhunts, I after love.

   • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, inMr. 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 washunting 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, page119:

     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 tohunt seashells? She had fine, delicate features with high cheekbones and the greenest eyes he'd ever seen.

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

   tohunt down a criminal

   He washunted from the parish.

5. (transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.

   Did youhunt that pony last week?

   • 1711 July 15 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison;Richard Steeleet al.], “WEDNESDAY, July 4, 1711”, inThe Spectator, number104; republished inAlexander Chalmers, editor,The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.:D[aniel] Appleton & Company,1853,→OCLC:

     Hehunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the country.

     The spelling has been modernized.

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

   Hehunts the woods, or the country.

7. (bell-ringing,transitive) To move or shift the order of (abell) in a regular course ofchanges.
8. (bell-ringing,intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
9. (engineering,intransitive) To be in a state of instability of movement or forcedoscillation, as agovernor 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, toseesaw, as a pair ofalternators working in parallel.
   • 1995, Bernard Wilkie,Special Effects in Television, page174:

     […] after which the inertia of the camera causes the motor tohunt with fluctuating speed.

hunt (pluralhunts)

1. The act ofhunting.
   • 1981,William Irwin Thompson,The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page134:

     Through male bonding, the subculture of thehunt 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 huntingexpedition.
3. Anorganization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
4. Apack of huntingdogs.

• Thun

• Hund

hunt ?

1. (Sappada,Sauris,Timau)dog

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

FromMiddle High Germanhunt, fromOld High Germanhunt, fromProto-West Germanic*hund, fromProto-Germanic*hundaz. Cognate withGermanHund,Englishhound.

hunt m (pluralhunte, diminutivehüntle, femininehünten)

1. (Luserna,Sette Comuni)dog
2. (Sette Comuni)firing pin
3. (Sette Comuni) large ironclamp

   Coordinate term:klamara

• “hunt” inMartalar, 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

Borrowed fromGermanHund.

• IPA^(key):[ˈɦunt]

hunt m inan

1. Used in the phrase:

   být nahuntě ―to be broke

   přivést nahunt ―to make broke

• mizina

• “hunt”, inPříruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech),1935–1957
• “hunt”, inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech),1960–1971, 1989
• “hunt”, inInternetová jazyková příručka (in Czech),2008–2025

Most likely fromMiddle Low Germanhunt.Possibly an earlier loan fromProto-Germanic*hundaz.

hunt (genitivehundi,partitivehunti)

1. wolf,grey wolf

• susi
• untsantsakas
• hall hunt

• IPA^(key):(before 13^th CE)/ˈhunt/

FromOld High Germanhunt, fromProto-West Germanic*hund, fromProto-Germanic*hundaz, fromProto-Indo-European*ḱwṓ.

hunt m

1. dog (Canis familiaris)

   er ist ouch deshundes spot, swer versmæhet unsern herren got

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2. (derogatory)dog(morally reprehensible person)

• Alemannic German:Hund
  • Alsatian:Hund
  • Swabian:Hond
  • Walser:hun,hund,hunn,hònn
• Bavarian:
  • Cimbrian:hunt
  • Mòcheno:hunt
  • Udinese:hunt
• Central Franconian:Hond,Honk(most dialects of Ripuarian),Hongk(Aachen),Hunk(Kölsch)
  • Hunsrik:Hund
  • Kölsch:Hunk,Hungk
  • Luxembourgish:Hond
• German:Hund
  • → Esperanto:hundo
    • → Ido:hundo
• Mòcheno:hunt
• Vilamovian:hund
• Yiddish:הונט(hunt)

FromOld High German*hunt.

hunt n

1. hundred

   Synonym:hundert

• German:hunt

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “HUNT stm.”, inMittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “HUNT stn.”, inMittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
• "hunt" in Köbler, Gerhard,Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

FromMiddle High Germanhunt, fromOld High Germanhunt, fromProto-West Germanic*hund, fromProto-Germanic*hundaz(“dog”). Cognate withGermanHund,Englishhound.

hunt m

1. dog

• 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

FromProto-West Germanic*hund.

hunt m

1. dog

• Middle Dutch:hont
  • Dutch:hond

• “hunt (I)”, inOudnederlands Woordenboek,2012

FromProto-West Germanic*hund, fromProto-Germanic*hundaz, fromProto-Indo-European*ḱwṓ.

hunt m

1. dog

• 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(most dialects of Ripuarian),Hongk(Aachen),Hunk(Kölsch)
    • Hunsrik:Hund
    • Kölsch:Hunk,Hungk
    • Luxembourgish:Hond
  • German:Hund
    • → Esperanto:hundo
      • → Ido:hundo
  • Mòcheno:hunt
  • Vilamovian:hund
  • Yiddish:הונט(hunt)

• "hunt" in Köbler, Gerhard,Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch (6th edition 2014)