Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo take hold of, to grasp. · To take away, carry off, apprehend. · To clear; to go beyond.
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”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionhentenenm
- Inherited-form mentionhentanang · to pursue, chase after, seize, arrest, grasp
- Inherited-form mention*hantijangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*hantijanągem-pro · to seize
- Cognate mentionhentais · to suit, beseem
- Cognate mentionhuntianang · to hunt
- Cognate mentionhundagoh · spoils, booty
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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