Etymology of “Hunt”
Tracing the origin and linguistic journey from Old Dutch
Source language
Old Dutch
Ancestry links
1
Descendants
5
Word Origin Summary
Hunt is attested in Old Dutch. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.
Ancestry Chain
Descendants and Related Terms
- IJsselhunten
Dutch · inherited from
- hont
Middle Dutch · inherited from
- hond
Dutch · inherited from
- hond
Afrikaans · inherited from
- hóndj
Limburgish · inherited from
What You Can Explore
- 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
- 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
- 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
- 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root