hent

== English == === Alternative forms === hente (13th–16th centuries) === Etymology === 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 === hent (third-person singular simple present hents, present participle henting, simple past and past participle hented) (obsolete) To take hold of, to grasp. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Pardoner's Tale", The Canterbury Tales, republished 1897 [Clarendon Press], Walter W. Skeat (editor), Chaucer's Works: Volume 4, 2018 reprint, Outlook Verlag, page 533, This cursed man hath in his hond y-hent / This poyson in a box, and sith he ran / In-to the nexte strete, un-to a man, / And borwed [of] him large botels three; (obsolete) To take away, carry off, apprehend. (obsolete, transitive) To clear; to go beyond. ==== Derived terms ==== === See also === henting === Anagrams === Neth, Neth., Then, ethn-, then == Breton == === Etymology === From Proto-Brythonic *hɨnt, from Proto-Celtic *sentus, from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to head for, go”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /hɛ̃nd/ === Noun === hent m (plural hentoù) way, road, path. == Norwegian Bokmål == === Verb === hent imperative of hente == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /hɛnt/ Homophone: hendt === Verb === hent imperative of henta == Old Norse == === Adjective === hent strong feminine nominative singular of hentr strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of hentr strong neuter nominative/accusative plural of hentr == Yola == === Verb === hent alternative form of hend === References === 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