huntoþ
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxun.toθ/, [ˈhun.toθ]
Noun
huntoþ m
- hunting, a hunt
- Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
- Him becōmon ēac swā miċele welan tō handa, þæt his bīġleofa wæs ælċe dæġ mid his hīrede þrittiġ mittan clǣnes melowes, and sixtiġ mittan ōðres melowes, twelf fætte oxan, and twēntiġ feldoxan, hundtēontiġ weðera, buton huntoðe and fugoloðe and ġemæstra fugela.
- And so much wealth came into his hands that every day he and his household consumed thirty mittas of clean meal, sixty mittas of other meal, twelve fat oxen, twenty field-oxen, and one hundred wethers, not counting the sustenance from hunting, fowling, or fattened birds.
- on huntoþ gān
- to go hunting
- Ġiestrandæġ iċ wæs on huntoþe mid mīnum fæder.
- Yesterday I was out hunting with my father.
- Hē ālīesde þā hundas and se huntoþ begann.
- He loosed the dogs and the hunt began.
- Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
Declension
Strong a-stem:
singular | plural | |
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nominative | huntoþ | huntoþas |
accusative | huntoþ | huntoþas |
genitive | huntoþes | huntoþa |
dative | huntoþe | huntoþum |
Synonyms
Descendants
- ⇒ Middle English: on hunteth