hunt

Coordinate term: klamara

cim-noun

hunt m (plural hunte, diminutive hüntle, feminine hünten)

hunte (plural)
hüntle (diminutive)
hünten (feminine)

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.


hunt

být na huntě

přivést na hunt

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


hunt

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.:

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.

1835, Alfred Tennyson, “Locksley Hall”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 100:

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.

1981, Field & Stream, volume 86, number 5, page 107:

2010, Backyard deer hunting: converting deer to dinner for pennies per pound, →ISBN, page 10:

(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.

The little girl was hunting for shells on the beach.

The police are hunting for evidence.

He after honour hunts, I after love.

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]:

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.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

My idea of retirement was to hunt seashells, play golf, and do a lot of walking.

2004, Prill Boyle, Defying Gravity: A Celebration of Late-Blooming Women, →ISBN, page 119:

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.

(transitive, intransitive) To try to find something; search (for).

to hunt down a criminal

He was hunted from the parish.

(transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.

Did you hunt that pony last week?

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

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:

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

He hunts the woods, or the country.

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

(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.

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

1995, Bernard Wilkie, Special Effects in Television, page 174:

(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.

en-verb

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

hunts (present singular third-person)
hunting (participle present)
hunted (participle past)
hunted (past)

you can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

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.


hunt

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.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 134:

An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.


hunt

hundi (genitive)
hunti (partitive)
hunt (nominative singular)
hundid (nominative plural)
hunt (accusative nominative singular)
hundid (accusative nominative plural)
hundi (accusative genitive singular)
hundid (accusative genitive plural)
hundi (genitive singular)
huntide (genitive plural)
hunti (partitive singular)
hunte (partitive plural)
huntisid (partitive plural)
hunti (illative singular)
hundisse (illative singular)
huntidesse (illative plural)
hundesse (illative plural)
hundis (inessive singular)
huntides (inessive plural)
hundes (inessive plural)
hundist (elative singular)
huntidest (elative plural)
hundest (elative plural)
hundile (allative singular)
huntidele (allative plural)
hundele (allative plural)
hundil (adessive singular)
huntidel (adessive plural)
hundel (adessive plural)
hundilt (ablative singular)
huntidelt (ablative plural)
hundelt (ablative plural)
hundiks (singular translative)
huntideks (plural translative)
hundeks (plural translative)
hundini (singular terminative)
huntideni (plural terminative)
hundina (essive singular)
huntidena (essive plural)
hundita (abessive singular)
huntideta (abessive plural)
hundiga (comitative singular)
huntidega (comitative plural)

Most likely from Middle Low German hunt.
Possibly an earlier loan from Proto-Germanic *hundaz.


hunt

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

Canis familiaris
Canis familiaris#Translingual

(derogatory) dog (morally reprehensible person)

ein (indefinite nominative singular)
dër (definite nominative singular)
hunt (nominative noun singular)
die (definite nominative plural)
hunde (nominative noun plural)
eines (genitive indefinite singular)
dës (definite genitive singular)
hundes (genitive noun singular)
dër (definite genitive plural)
hunde (genitive noun plural)
eime (dative indefinite singular)
dëm (dative definite singular)
hunde (dative noun singular)
dën (dative definite plural)
hunden (dative noun plural)
einen (accusative indefinite singular)
dën (accusative definite singular)
hunt (accusative noun singular)
die (accusative definite plural)
hunde (accusative noun plural)

Alemannic German: Hund

Alsatian: Hund

Swabian: Hond

Walser: hun, hund, hunn, hònn

Bavarian:

Cimbrian: hunt

Mòcheno: hunt

Udinese: hunt

desctree

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)

From Old High German hunt, from Proto-West Germanic *hund, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.


hunt

German: hunt


hunt

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.


hunt

Middle Dutch: hont

Dutch: hond


hunt

around 0.14 hectare, equivalent to one hundred ruoda

Middle Dutch: hont

Dutch: hont, hond

From Proto-Germanic *hundą. Cognate with Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌳 (hund) and Old English hund.


hunt

hunt (nominative singular)
hunta (nominative plural)
hunt (accusative singular)
hunta (accusative plural)
huntes (genitive singular)
hunto (genitive plural)
hunte (dative singular)
huntum (dative plural)
huntu (instrumental singular)

desctree

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)

From Proto-West Germanic *hund, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.