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hunta

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
hunta, an; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§401;
A hunter
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  • Hunta

    venator,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 36
      • ;
    • Som. 38, 43
      • ;
    • Wrt. Voc. 73, 43.

  • Ǽnne cræft ic cann. Hunta ic eom

    unam artem scio. Venator sum,

    • Coll. Monast. Th. 21, 1-6: 22, 27.

  • Wé lǽraþ ðæt preóst ne beó hunta ne hafecere

    we enjoin that a priest be not a hunter nor a hawker

      [cf.
    • Chaucer's Monk
      • : 'He ȝaf nat of that text a pulled hen, That seith, that hunters been noon holy men'],
    • L. Edg. C. 64
      • ;
    • Th. ii. 258, 7.

  • Eal wéste búton ðǽr huntan gewícodon oððe fisceras,

    • Ors. 1, 1
      • ;
    • Swt. 17, 29.

  • Wéste land bútan fiscerum and fugelerum and huntum,

    • Swt. 17, 26.

  • Bethsaida is gereht

    domus venatorum

    ðæt is huntena hús,

    • Shrn. 78, 9.

  • Ðá són ðǽræfter ða sǽgon and hérdon fela men feole huntes hunten. Ða huntes wǽron swarte and micele and ládlíce,

    • Chr. 1127
      • ;
    • Erl. 256, 28.
Etymology
[
Laym. hunte; pl. hunten
:
Orm. hunnte
:
Chauc. hunte.
]
Similar entries
v. hwæl-hunta.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hunta.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/19980.

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