hunt: [OE] Hunt is an ancient word, probably traceable back to an Indo-European *kend-, which also produced Swedish hinna ‘reach’. Its original Old English descendant was hentan ‘seize’, of which huntian (source of modern English hunt) was a derivative. Etymologically, therefore, hunt means ‘try to seize’. => hand
hunt (v.)
Old English huntian "chase game," related to hentan "to seize," from Proto-Germanic *huntojan (cognates: Gothic hintan "to seize, capture," Old High German hunda "booty"), from PIE *kend-.
General sense of "search diligently" (for anything) is first recorded c. 1200. Related: Hunted; hunting. Happy hunting-grounds "Native American afterlife paradise" is from "Last of the Mohicans" (1826).
hunt (n.)
early 12c., from hunt (v.). Meaning "body of persons associated for the purpose of hunting with a pack of hounds" is first recorded 1570s.
例文
1. The couple had helped in the hunt for the todddlers.
この夫婦は幼い子供たちの捜索を手伝っていた。
2.Parent birds began to hunt for food for their young.
親鳥は幼鳥のために食べ物を探し始めた。
3.He set off for a nineteen-day moose hunt in Nova Scotia.
彼は19日間のヘラジカ漁に参加するために新スコシアに出発した。/
4.Steve Vickers was yellow-carded for a foul on Hunt .
スティーブ?ヴィックスはヘントへのファウルでイエローカードを提示された。
5.A leopard hunts alone,and an injured leopard cannot hunt .