hunt

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

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.
2. (ambitransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
3. (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
4. (transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
5. (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
6. (transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
7. (intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
8. (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.

Noun

1. The act of hunting.
2. A hunting expedition.
3. An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
4. A pack of hunting dogs.

Concepten

jagen

jacht

bejagen

jacht maken op

zoeken

nastreven

najagen

afzoeken

achterna zitten

haast

haastigheid

jachten

snuffelen

jachtpartij

nazetten

Synoniemen

chase

hunting

pursue

search

follow

go hunting

quest

look for

seek

🔍

pursuit

shooting

catch

run after

fish

🐟

trace

trail

chase after

search for

hunt down

shoot

hound

capture

track

grab onto

track down

utilize

take hold of

take

comb

drive

go after

snare

research

scour

gather

run

race

fetch

receive

investigation

look

grip

hold

request

chivy

grab

grasp

occupy

seize

hunt club

Vertalingen

chasser

chasse

caccia

jagen

cazar

Jagd

caza

cacciare

caçar

caça

κυνήγι

caça

κυνηγώ

av

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/hʌnt/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: hunten

Overgenomen van Oudengels: huntian

Verwant aan Oudhoogduits: hunda

Verwant aan Gothisch: 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃

Verwant aan Oudengels: hūþ

Verwant aan Oudengels: hentan

In summary

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.

Zinnen

Used to hunt rabbits there myself .

Gebruikt om daar zelf op konijnen te jagen.

This enrages the farmers , who decide to hunt them down and kill them .

Dit woedt de boeren, die besluiten hen op te sporen en te doden.