hunt

See also: Hunt

English

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/

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• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /hʊnt/
• Rhymes: -ʌnt

Verb

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

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 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.

   • 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.

   • 2010, Backyard deer hunting: converting deer to dinner for pennies per pound, →ISBN, page 10:
2. (ambitransitive) 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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     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.

5. (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.

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

   He hunts the woods, or the country.

7. (bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
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 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

• 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

to chase down prey

• Abkhaz: ашәарыцара (aŝʷarəcara)
• Ainu: ラマンテ (ramante), イラマンテ (iramante)
• Albanian: gjuaj (sq)
• Altai:

  Southern Altai: уулаар (uulaar)

• Amharic: አደነ (ʾädänä)
• Andi: чониду (čonidu)
• Arabic: اِصْطَادَ (iṣṭāda), صَادَ (ar) (ṣāda)
• Armenian: որսալ (hy) (orsal)
• Assamese: চিকাৰ কৰা (sikar kora)
• Asturian: caciar, cazar (ast)
• Avar: чан гьабизе (čan habize)
• Azerbaijani: ovlamaq (az)
• Basque: ehiza
• Belarusian: палява́ць impf (paljavácʹ), лаві́ць impf (lavícʹ)
• Bulgarian: ловя́ (bg) impf (lovjá), ловувам (lovuvam)
• Burmese: အမဲလိုက် (my) (a.mai:luik)
• Catalan: caçar (ca); caça (Algherese)
• Chechen: талла эха (talla exa)
• Cherokee: ᎦᏃᎭᎵᏙᎭ (ganohalidoha)
• Cheyenne: -émȯhóne
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 打獵 / 打猎 (daa² lip⁶) (intransitive)

  Mandarin: 打獵 / 打猎 (zh) (dǎliè) (intransitive), 獵取 / 猎取 (zh) (lièqǔ) (transitive), 捕食 (zh) (bǔshí) (transitive)

• Czech: lovit (cs)
• Danish: jage, gå på jagt efter
• Dutch: jagen (nl)
• Esperanto: ĉasi (eo)
• Estonian: jahtima, küttima
• Extremaduran: cazal, caçal
• Finnish: metsästää (fi), jahdata (fi)
• French: chasser (fr)
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: jeie

• Friulian: cjaçâ, čhačâ
• Galician: cazar (gl)
• Gallurese: cacciggjà
• Georgian: ნადირობა (nadiroba)
• German: jagen (de)
• Greek: κυνηγώ (el) (kynigó), θηρεύω (el) (thirévo)

  Ancient Greek: θηρεύω (thēreúō), θηράω (thēráō), κυνηγετέω (kunēgetéō)

• Hadza: please add this translation if you can
• Hawaiian: hahai, ʻimi
• Hebrew: צָד (he) (tzad)
• Hindi: शिकार करना (śikār karnā)
• Hmong:

  White Hmong: please add this translation if you can

• Hungarian: vadászik (hu)
• Icelandic: veiða (is)
• Indonesian: buru (id)
• Ingrian: jahtiita
• Interlingua: chassar
• Irish: seilg

  Old Irish: ad·claid

• Italian: cacciare (it)
• Japanese: 狩る (ja) (かる, karu), 狩猟する (ja) (しゅりょうする, shuryō suru)
• Javanese: buru (jv)

  Old Javanese: buru

• Kaingang: ẽkrénh
• Kazakh: аң аулау (añ aulau), аулау (aulau)
• Khmer: បរបាញ់ (bɑɑ bañ)
• Korean: 사냥하다 (ko) (sanyanghada), 수렵하다 (suryeophada)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ڕاودان (rawdan)

• Kyrgyz: аң уулоо (aŋ uuloo), уулоо (ky) (uuloo)
• Lao: ລ່າ (lā), ລ່າສັດ (lā sat)
• Latgalian: medeit
• Latin: vēnor
• Latvian: medīt (lv)
• Lithuanian: medžioti
• Lombard: cascià (lmo)
• Low German:

  German Low German: jagen

• Luxembourgish: joen (lb)
• Macedonian: лови impf (lovi)
• Malay: berburu, memburu
• Malayalam: വേട്ടയാടുക (vēṭṭayāṭuka), നായാടുക (ml) (nāyāṭuka)
• Maltese: kaċċa
• Manchu: ᠠᠪᠠᠯᠠᠮᠪᡳ (abalambi)
• Māori: whaiwhai, whakangau (refers to hunting with dogs), whakangangahu (with dogs), whakarapu
• Marathi: शिकार करणे (śikār karṇe)
• Mongolian: ан агнах (an agnax)
• Naga:

  Khiamniungan Naga: ūkūap

• Nepali: सिकार गर्नु (sikār garnu)
• Ngunawal: gudali
• Norwegian: jakte
• Occitan: caçar (oc)
• Old English: huntian
• Oromo: adamsuu
• Ossetian: цуан кӕнын (cwan kænyn)
• Persian: شکار کردن (šekâr kardan), صید کردن (fa) (seyd kardan)
• Polish: polować (pl)
• Portuguese: caçar (pt), vear (pt)
• Quechua: chakuy
• Rapa Nui: poko
• Romanian: vâna (ro)
• Romansh: chatschar
• Russian: охо́титься (ru) impf (oxótitʹsja), лови́ть (ru) impf (lovítʹ)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: cassai

• Sassarese: catzà, catzare
• Scottish Gaelic: sealg
• Serbo-Croatian: терати

  Cyrillic: ловити

  Latin: loviti (sh)

• Sicilian: cacciari (scn)
• Slovak: poľovať impf, loviť impf
• Slovene: loviti (sl) impf
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: góńtwowaś

• Spanish: cazar (es)
• Sranan Tongo: onti
• Sundanese: bujeng
• Swahili: kuwinda (sw)
• Swedish: jaga (sv)
• Tajik: шикор кардан (šikor kardan), сайд кардан (sayd kardan)
• Tarantino: caccià
• Telugu: వేటాడు (te) (vēṭāḍu)
• Tetum: kasa
• Thai: ล่าสัตว์ (lâa sàt), ล่า (th) (lâa)
• Tibetan: རི་དྭགས་བརྒྱབ (ri dwags brgyab)
• Turkish: avlamak (tr) [-ar]
• Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
• Ugaritic: 𐎕𐎄 (ṣd)
• Ukrainian: полюва́ти (uk) impf (poljuváty), лови́ти (uk) impf (lovýty)
• Unami: alai
• Urdu: شکار کرنا (śikār karnā), صید کرنا (said karnā)
• Uyghur: ئوۋلىماق (owlimaq), ئوۋ قىلماق (ow qilmaq)
• Uzbek: ovlamoq (uz), ov qilmoq
• Venetan: casar, caçar, cazhar
• Vietnamese: săn bắn (vi)
• Walloon: tchessî (wa)
• Welsh: hela (cy)
• Yakut: бултаа (bultaa)
• Zealandic: jaege
• Zhuang: dwk, lieb
• Zigula: kala
• ǃXóõ: !qāhe, gǀkxʻâã

to search for something

• Catalan: caçar (ca)
• Czech: hledat (cs)
• Danish: søge (da), lede
• Dutch: zoeken (nl)
• Esperanto: ĉasi (eo), serĉi (eo)
• Estonian: jahtima, otsima (et)
• Finnish: metsästää (fi), jahdata (fi)
• French: chercher (fr)
• Galician: buscar (gl)
• German: suchen (de)
• Greek: ψάχνω (el) (psáchno), αναζητώ (el) (anazitó)
• Hungarian: vadászik (hu), kutat (hu)
• Icelandic: leita (is)
• Indonesian: buru (id)
• Italian: cercare (it), essere a caccia, essere alla ricerca
• Japanese: 探す (ja) (sagasu)
• Latin: vēnor
• Low German:

  German Low German: söken (nds)

• Māori: kimikimi, ngaropoko (in the game of hide-and-seek)
• Norwegian: jakte, søke (no)
• Portuguese: caçar (pt), vear (pt)
• Russian: разы́скивать (ru) impf (razýskivatʹ), иска́ть (ru) impf (iskátʹ)
• Spanish: buscar (es)
• Sundanese: bujeng
• Swahili: tafuta (sw)

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• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} צד (he) (tsad), ^{(please verify)} חיפש (he) (khipés)
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} caciar
• Inuktitut: ^{(please verify)} ᐊᖑᓇᓱᒃᑐᖅ (angonasoktoq)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 사냥하다 (ko) (sanyanghada), ^{(please verify)} 잡다 (ko) (japda)

Noun

North Staffordshire Hunt at the Boxing Day Meet, Woore, Shropshire, 2019

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

Terms derived from hunt (noun)

• 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

the act of hunting, shooting — see also hunting

• Albanian: gjueti (sq) f
• Altai:

  Southern Altai: аҥдаш (aŋdaš), уу (uu), аҥ (aŋ)

• Arabic: صَيْد (ṣayd), مُطارَدَة (muṭārada)

  Moroccan Arabic: صيّادة f

• Armenian: որս (hy) (ors)
• Avar: чан (čan)
• Azerbaijani: ov (az)
• Bangi: bokila
• Bashkir: ау (aw)
• Basque: ehiza
• Belarusian: палява́нне n (paljavánnje), палява́ньне n (paljavánʹnje), лоў m (low), ло́ўля f (lówlja)
• Bengali: শিকার (bn) (śikar)
• Bikol:

  Central Bikol: mangayam

• Bulgarian: лов (bg) m (lov)
• Catalan: caça (ca) f, cacera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 打獵 / 打猎 (daa² lip⁶)

  Hokkien: 拍獵 / 拍猎 (zh-min-nan) (phah-la̍h)

  Mandarin: 狩獵 / 狩猎 (zh) (shòuliè), 打獵 / 打猎 (zh) (dǎliè)

• Czech: lov (cs) m
• Danish: jagt (da) c
• Dutch: jacht (nl) m
• Erzya: оцина (ocina)
• Esperanto: ĉaso, ĉasado
• Estonian: jaht (et)
• Ewe: adedada
• Finnish: metsästys (fi), jahti (fi)
• French: chasse (fr) f
• Galician: caza (gl) f
• German: Jagd (de) f
• Greek: κυνήγι (el) n (kynígi), θήρα (el) (thíra)

  Ancient Greek: κυνηγίς f (kunēgís), ἄγρα f (ágra), θήρα f (thḗra)

• Hamer-Banna: adamá
• Hebrew: מָצוֹד (he) m (matsód), צַיִד (he) m (tsáyid)
• Hindi: शिकार (hi) m (śikār), सैद (hi) f (said)
• Hungarian: vadászat (hu)
• Icelandic: veiði (is) f
• Indonesian: perburuan (id), pemburuan (id)
• Ingrian: jahti, ohotta
• Interlingua: chassa
• Irish: seilg f, fiach m
• Italian: caccia (it) f
• Japanese: 狩り (ja) (かり, kari), 狩猟 (ja) (しゅりょう, shuryō)
• Kannada: ಬೇಟೆ (kn) (bēṭe)
• Kazakh: аң аулау (añ aulau), аңшылық (añşylyq), аулау (aulau)
• Khmer: ការបរបាញ់ (kaa bɑɑ bañ)
• Korean: 사냥 (ko) (sanyang), 수렵(狩獵) (ko) (suryeop)
• Kumyk: ав (aw)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: نێچیر (ckb) (nêçîr), ڕاو (raw)

  Northern Kurdish: nêçîr (ku)

  Southern Kurdish: نەچیر (neçîr)

• Kyrgyz: аң (ky) (aŋ), уу (uu), аң уулоо (aŋ uuloo)
• Lao: ການລ່າ (kān lā)
• Latin: venatio (la) f
• Latvian: medības m
• Lingala: bokila
• Lithuanian: medžioklė f
• Luxembourgish: Juegd f
• Macedonian: лов m (lov)
• Malay: pemburuan (ms)
• Malayalam: വേട്ട (ml) (vēṭṭa), നായാട്ട് (ml) (nāyāṭṭŭ)
• Manchu: ᠠᠪᠠ (aba)
• Marathi: शिकार (mr) m (śikār)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: ан (mn) (an), ан гөрөө (an göröö), агнуур (mn) (agnuur)

  Mongolian script: ᠠᠩ (ang), ᠠᠩ
  ᠭᠥᠷᠦᠭᠡ (ang ɣörüge), ᠠᠩᠨᠠᠭᠤᠷ (angnaɣur)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jakt (no) m or f

• Odia: ଶିକାର (or) (śikāra)
• Old English: huntoþ m, huntung f
• Old Turkic: 𐰉 (b¹ /⁠ab⁠/)
• Ossetian: цуан (cwan)
• Pashto: صيد m (sayd), ښکار (ps) m (x̌kār)
• Persian:

  Dari: شِکَار (šikār), صَید (sayd), نَخْچِیر (naxčīr)

  Iranian Persian: شِکار (šekâr), صِید (seyd), نَخْچیر (naxčir)

• Plautdietsch: Jacht f
• Polish: polowanie (pl) n, myślistwo (pl) n, łów (pl) m
• Portuguese: caça (pt) (Brazil)
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਸ਼ਿਕਾਰ (pa) m (śikār)

  Shahmukhi: شِکار m (śikār)

• Romanian: vânătoare (ro)
• Russian: охо́та (ru) f (oxóta), ло́вля (ru) f (lóvlja), лов (ru) m (lov)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: càssa

  Logudorese: zera, catza

• Sassarese: catza
• Scottish Gaelic: sealg f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ло̑в m

  Latin: lȏv (sh) m

• Slovak: lov m
• Slovene: lov (sl) m
• Somali: ugaadhsi
• Spanish: caza (es) f
• Swedish: jakt (sv) c
• Tagalog: pangangaso
• Tajik: шикор (tg) (šikor), сайд (sayd)
• Tamil: வேட்டை (ta) (vēṭṭai)
• Tatar: ау (tt) (aw)
• Telugu: వేట (te) (vēṭa)
• Thai: การล่า (th) (gaan-lâa)
• Tibetan: རྔོན་པ (rngon pa)
• Tocharian B: werke
• Turkish: av (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: آو (av), قنص (kans)

• Turkmen: aw (tk)
• Ukrainian: полюва́ння (uk) n (poljuvánnja), лов (uk) m (lov), ло́вля (uk) f (lóvlja)
• Urdu: شِکار m (śikār), صَید f (said)
• Uyghur: ئوۋ (ow)
• Uzbek: ov (uz), ovlash, ov qilish, shikor (uz) (literary)
• Vietnamese: sự săn bắn (vi)
• Volapük: yagön (vo)
• Walloon: tchesse (wa) f
• Welsh: helfa f
• Yaghnobi: шикор (šikor)
• Yakut: булт (bult)

hunting expedition

• Afar: hadani
• Catalan: cacera (ca) f, caça (ca) f
• Czech: lov (cs) m, hon (cs) m
• Esperanto: ĉasado
• Finnish: metsästysretki, metsästys (fi)
• Greek: κυνήγι (el) n (kynígi)
• Icelandic: veiðiferð f
• Italian: caccia (it) f, spedizione di caccia
• Krymchak: ав (av)
• Luxembourgish: Juegd f
• Malayalam: നായാട്ട് (ml) (nāyāṭṭŭ)
• Marathi: शिकार (mr) m (śikār)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jakt (no) m or f

• Old English: huntoþ m
• Old Galician-Portuguese: caça
• Old Turkic: 𐰉 (b¹ /⁠ab⁠/)
• Plautdietsch: Jacht f
• Portuguese: caçada (pt) f
• Scottish Gaelic: sealg f
• Spanish: partida de caza f, cacería (es) f, cazata f

organization

• Bulgarian: ло́вна дружи́нка f (lóvna družínka)
• Czech: lovecký (cs) spolek (cs) m
• Esperanto: ĉasorganizaĵo
• Finnish: metsästysseura (fi)

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Translations to be checked

• Basque: ^{(please verify)} ehizatu
• Cebuano: ^{(please verify)} pagpangayam
• Hiligaynon: ^{(please verify)} mangayam
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} pencarian (id)

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 [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Czech

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓder.

Proto-Germanic *hundaz

Proto-West Germanic *hund

Old High German hunt

Middle High German hunt

German Hundbor.

Czech hunt

Borrowed from German Hund.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦunt]

Noun

hunt m inan

1. Used in the phrase:

   být na huntě ― to be broke

   přivést na hunt ― to make broke

Declension

Declension of hunt (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	hunt	hunty
genitive	huntu	huntů
dative	huntu	huntům
accusative	hunt	hunty
vocative	hunte	hunty
locative	huntě, huntu	huntech
instrumental	huntem	hunty

Synonyms

• mizina

Derived terms

• huntovat
• zhuntovat

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 German hunt. Possibly an earlier loan from Proto-Germanic *hundaz.

Noun

hunt (genitive hundi, partitive hunti)

1. wolf, grey wolf

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

• susi
• untsantsakas
• hall hunt

Middle English

Verb

hunt

1. (Early Scots, Northern) alternative form of hunten

Middle High German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈhunt/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old High German hunt.

Noun

hunt m

1. dog (Canis familiaris)

   er ist ouch des hundes spot, swer versmæhet unsern herren got

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. (derogatory) dog (morally reprehensible person)

Declension

Declension of hunt (strong masculine without umlaut)

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	dër	hunt	die	hunde
genitive	eines	dës	hundes	dër	hunde
dative	eime	dëm	hunde	dën	hunden
accusative	einen	dën	hunt	die	hunde

Descendants

• 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)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old High German *hunt.

Noun

hunt n

1. hundred

   Synonym: hundert

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^[1] (in German), 3rd edition

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 [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

Declension of hunt (masculine a-stem noun)

case	singular	plural
nominative	hunt	hunda
accusative	hunt	hunda
genitive	hundes	hundo
dative	hunde	hundon

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: hont
  • Dutch: hond

Further reading

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

Old High German

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *hund.

Noun

hunt m

1. dog

Declension

Declension of hunt (masculine a-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	hunt	huntā, hunta
accusative	hunt	huntā, hunta
genitive	huntes	hunto
dative	hunte	huntum
instrumental	huntu	—

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 (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)

References

• Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “hunt”, in Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch‎^[2] (in German), 6th edition

Yiddish

Romanization

hunt

1. romanization of הונט
   • 1993, Ruth Levitan, transl., Shlemiels-shlimazls‎^[3], page 28:

     Az der shlimazl geyt arayn in a hoyf, loyft im antkegn a beyzer hunt, un tsebayst im.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)