hent
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- hente (13th–16th centuries)
Etymology edit
From Middle English henten (also hynten, hinten > English hint), from Old English hentan (“to pursue, chase after, seize, arrest, grasp”), from Proto-West Germanic *hantijan, from Proto-Germanic *hantijaną (“to seize”), related to Icelandic henta (“to suit, beseem”), Old English huntian (“to hunt”), Old High German hunda (“spoils, booty”).
Verb edit
hent (third-person singular simple present hents, present participle henting, simple past and past participle hent)
- (obsolete) To take hold of, to grasp.
- 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum ix”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
- And in the grekynge of the day Sir Gawayne hente his hors wondyrs for to seke.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (obsolete) To take away, carry off, apprehend.
- (obsolete, transitive) To clear; to go beyond.
Anagrams edit
Breton edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Brythonic *hɨnt, from Proto-Celtic *sentus, from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to head for, go”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hent m (plural hentoù)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Verb edit
hent
- imperative of hente
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
hent
- imperative of henta
Old Norse edit
Adjective edit
hent
Yola edit
Verb edit
hent
- Alternative form of hend
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 46