hentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 henten (also hynten, hinten > English hint), from 古期英語 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”), 古期英語 huntian (“to hunt”), Old High German hunda (“spoils, booty”).

動詞

hent (third-person singular simple present hents, present participle henting, simple past and past participle hented)

1. (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;

   • 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum ix”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:

     And in the grekynge of the day Sir Gawayne hente his hors wondyrs for to seke.

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2. (obsolete) To take away, carry off, apprehend.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To clear; to go beyond.

派生語

参考

• henting

アナグラム

• Neth, Neth., Then, ethn-, then