hunt
English
Etymology
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#HUNTCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#HUNT hunten, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#HUNTCategory:English terms derived from Old English#HUNT huntian (“to hunt”), from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#HUNTCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#HUNT *huntōn (“to hunt, capture”), possibly from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#HUNT *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/Category:English 1-syllable words#HUNTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#HUNT
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /hʊnt/Category:English 1-syllable words#HUNTCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#HUNT
- Rhymes: -ʌntCategory:Rhymes:English/ʌnt#HUNTCategory:Rhymes:English/ʌnt/1 syllable#HUNT
Verb
hunt (third-person singular simple present hunts, present participle hunting, simple past and past participle hunted)Category:English lemmas#HUNTCategory:English verbs#HUNTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#HUNTCategory:Pages with entries#HUNTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HUNT
- (ambitransitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#HUNTCategory:English intransitive verbs#HUNT) 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#HUNT
- Her uncle will go out and hunt for deer, now that it is open season.Category:English terms with usage examples#HUNT
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#HUNT
- 1981, Field & Stream, volume 86, number 5, page 107:
- Either the bird will be downgraded to "threatened" status — which means it can be hunted — or it will be declared a nonspecies, as has already happened to all its taxonomic kissing cousins.Category:English terms with quotations#HUNT
- 2010, Backyard deer hunting: converting deer to dinner for pennies per pound, →ISBN, page 10:
- (ambitransitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#HUNTCategory:English intransitive verbs#HUNT) To try to find something; search (for).
- The little girl was hunting for shells on the beach.Category:English terms with usage examples#HUNT
- The police are hunting for evidence.Category:English terms with usage examples#HUNT
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#HUNT
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#HUNT
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#HUNT
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#HUNT
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#HUNT) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
- to hunt down a criminalCategory:English terms with usage examples#HUNT
- He was hunted from the parish.Category:English terms with usage examples#HUNT
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#HUNT) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
- Did you hunt that pony last week?Category:English terms with usage examples#HUNT
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#HUNT
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#HUNT) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
- He hunts the woods, or the country.Category:English terms with usage examples#HUNT
- (bell-ringing, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#HUNT) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
- (bell-ringing, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#HUNT) To shift up and down in order regularly.
- (engineeringCategory:en:Engineering#HUNT, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#HUNT) 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.Category:English terms with quotations#HUNT
Derived terms
- book-hunt
- bookhunter
- bowhunt
- headhunt, head-hunt
- house-hunt
- Hunt
- huntable
- hunt-and-peck, hunt and peck
- hunt down
- hunted
- huntee
- 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
- outhunt
- overhunt
- proverbs hunt in pairs
- run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
- snark hunt
- spider-hunting wasp
- still-hunt
- that dog won't hunt
- that old dog won't hunt
- thrill of the hunt
- trophy-hunt
- you can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
Translations
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Noun

hunt (plural hunts)Category:English lemmas#HUNTCategory:English nouns#HUNTCategory:English countable nouns#HUNTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#HUNTCategory:Pages with entries#HUNTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HUNT
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#HUNT
- A hunting expedition.
- An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
- A pack of hunting dogs.
Derived terms
- antihunt
- bunny hunt
- canned hunt
- dog in the hunt
- drag hunt
- Easter egg hunt
- egg hunt
- foxhunt
- fox hunt
- ghosthunt
- huntboard
- huntless
- huntlike
- huntmaster
- hunt saboteur
- Hunt's Cross
- hunt seat
- huntsperson
- Hunts Point
- huntswoman
- Internet hunt
- in the hunt
- manhunt
- molehunt
- on the hunt
- personhunt
- pixel hunt
- puzzlehunt
- scavenger hunt
- snipe hunt
- superhunt
- trail hunt
- treasure hunt
- Wild Hunt
- witch hunt
- witch-hunt
- womanhunt
Translations
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Anagrams
Bavarian
Alternative forms
Noun
hunt ?Category:Bavarian lemmas#HUNTCategory:Bavarian nouns#HUNTCategory:Bavarian terms with redundant script codes#HUNTCategory:Bavarian entries with incorrect language header#HUNTCategory:Requests for gender in Bavarian entries#HUNTCategory:Pages with entries#HUNTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#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
Category:Cimbrian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#HUNTCategory:Cimbrian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *ḱwṓ#HUNTFrom Middle High GermanCategory:Cimbrian terms inherited from Middle High German#HUNTCategory:Cimbrian terms derived from Middle High German#HUNT hunt, from Old High GermanCategory:Cimbrian terms inherited from Old High German#HUNTCategory:Cimbrian terms derived from Old High German#HUNT hunt, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:Cimbrian terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#HUNTCategory:Cimbrian terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#HUNT *hund, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Cimbrian terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#HUNTCategory:Cimbrian terms derived from Proto-Germanic#HUNT *hundaz. Cognate with German Hund, English hound.
Noun
hunt mCategory:Cimbrian lemmas#HUNTCategory:Cimbrian nouns#HUNTCategory:Cimbrian entries with incorrect language header#HUNTCategory:Cimbrian masculine nouns#HUNTCategory:Pages with entries#HUNTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HUNT (plural hunte, diminutive hüntle, feminine hünten)
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
Borrowed from GermanCategory:Czech terms borrowed from German#HUNTCategory:Czech terms derived from German#HUNT Hund.
Pronunciation
Noun
hunt m inanCategory:Czech lemmas#HUNTCategory:Czech nouns#HUNTCategory:Czech entries with incorrect language header#HUNTCategory:Czech masculine nouns#HUNTCategory:Czech inanimate nouns#HUNTCategory:Pages with entries#HUNTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HUNT
- Used in the phrase:
- být na huntě ― to be brokeCategory:Czech terms with collocations#HUNT
- přivést na hunt ― to make brokeCategory:Czech terms with collocations#HUNT
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), 2008–2026
Estonian
Etymology
Most likely from Middle Low GermanCategory:Estonian terms derived from Middle Low German#HUNT hunt. Possibly an earlier loan from Proto-GermanicCategory:Estonian terms derived from Proto-Germanic#HUNT *hundaz.
Noun
hunt (genitive hundi, partitive hunti)Category:Estonian lemmas#HUNTCategory:Estonian nouns#HUNTCategory:Estonian entries with incorrect language header#HUNTCategory:Pages with entries#HUNTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HUNT
Declension
| Declension of hunt (ÕS type 22e/riik, t-d gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Category:et:Canids#HUNTMiddle English
Verb
huntCategory:Middle English alternative forms#HUNTCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#HUNTCategory:Pages with entries#HUNTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HUNT
- (Early ScotsCategory:Early Scots#HUNT, NorthernCategory:Northern Middle English#HUNT) alternative form of hunten
Middle High German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈhunt/Category:Middle High German terms with IPA pronunciation#HUNT
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old High German hunt.
Category:Middle High German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#HUNTCategory:Middle High German terms derived from Old High German#HUNTCategory:Middle High German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#HUNTCategory:Middle High German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#HUNTCategory:Middle High German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#HUNTCategory:Middle High German terms derived from Proto-Germanic#HUNTCategory:Middle High German terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *ḱwṓ#HUNTCategory:Middle High German terms inherited from Old High German#HUNTCategory:Middle High German entries with etymology texts#HUNTNoun
hunt mCategory:Middle High German lemmas#HUNTCategory:Middle High German nouns#HUNTCategory:Middle High German entries with incorrect language header#HUNTCategory:Middle High German masculine nouns#HUNTCategory:Pages with entries#HUNTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HUNT
- dog (Canis familiaris)
- er ist ouch des hundes spot, swer versmæhet unsern herren got
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- (derogatoryCategory:Middle High German derogatory terms#HUNT) dog (morally reprehensible person)
Declension
Descendants
Etymology 2
Inherited from Old High German *hunt.
Category:Middle High German terms derived from Old High German#HUNTCategory:Middle High German entries referencing missing etymons#HUNTCategory:Middle High German terms inherited from Old High German#HUNTCategory:Middle High German entries with etymology texts#HUNTNoun
hunt nCategory:Middle High German lemmas#HUNTCategory:Middle High German nouns#HUNTCategory:Middle High German entries with incorrect language header#HUNTCategory:Middle High German neuter nouns#HUNTCategory:Pages with entries#HUNTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HUNT
Descendants
- German: hunt
References
- Benecke, Georg Friedrich; Müller, Wilhelm; Zarncke, Friedrich (1863), “HUNT stm.”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
- Benecke, Georg Friedrich; Müller, Wilhelm; Zarncke, Friedrich (1863), “HUNT stn.”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
- Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “hunt”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition
Mòcheno
Etymology
From Middle High GermanCategory:Mòcheno terms inherited from Middle High German#HUNTCategory:Mòcheno terms derived from Middle High German#HUNT hunt, from Old High GermanCategory:Mòcheno terms inherited from Old High German#HUNTCategory:Mòcheno terms derived from Old High German#HUNT hunt, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:Mòcheno terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#HUNTCategory:Mòcheno terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#HUNT *hund, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Mòcheno terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#HUNTCategory:Mòcheno terms derived from Proto-Germanic#HUNT *hundaz (“dog”). Cognate with German Hund, English hound.
Noun
hunt mCategory:Mòcheno lemmas#HUNTCategory:Mòcheno nouns#HUNTCategory:Mòcheno entries with incorrect language header#HUNTCategory:Mòcheno masculine nouns#HUNTCategory:Pages with entries#HUNTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HUNT
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
Category:Old Dutch terms derived from Frankish#HUNTCategory:Old Dutch terms inherited from Frankish#HUNTCategory:Old Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic#HUNTCategory:Old Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#HUNTCategory:Old Dutch terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#HUNTFrom Proto-West GermanicCategory:Old Dutch terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#HUNTCategory:Old Dutch terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#HUNT *hund.
Noun
hunt mCategory:Old Dutch lemmas#HUNTCategory:Old Dutch nouns#HUNTCategory:Old Dutch entries with incorrect language header#HUNTCategory:Old Dutch masculine nouns#HUNTCategory:Pages with entries#HUNTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HUNT
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “hunt (I)”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Old High German
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *hund.
Category:Old High German terms derived from Proto-Germanic#HUNTCategory:Old High German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#HUNTCategory:Old High German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#HUNTCategory:Old High German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#HUNTCategory:Old High German terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *ḱwṓ#HUNTCategory:Old High German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#HUNTCategory:Old High German entries with etymology texts#HUNTNoun
hunt mCategory:Old High German lemmas#HUNTCategory:Old High German nouns#HUNTCategory:Old High German entries with incorrect language header#HUNTCategory:Old High German masculine nouns#HUNTCategory:Pages with entries#HUNTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HUNT
Declension
| case | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | hunt | huntā, hunta |
| accusative | hunt | huntā, hunta |
| genitive | huntes | hunto |
| dative | hunte | huntum |
| instrumental | huntu | — |
Descendants
References
- Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “hunt”, in Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch (in German), 6th edition
Yiddish
Romanization
huntCategory:Yiddish non-lemma forms#HUNTCategory:Yiddish romanizations#HUNTCategory:Yiddish entries with incorrect language header#HUNTCategory:Pages with entries#HUNTCategory:Pages with 11 entries#HUNT
- romanization of הונט
- 1993, Ruth Levitan, transl., Shlemiels-shlimazls, page 28:
- Az der shlimazl geyt arayn in a hoyf, loyft im antkegn a beyzer hunt, un tsebayst im.Category:Yiddish terms with quotations#HUNTCategory:Requests for translations of Yiddish quotations#HUNT
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
