hent

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To take hold of, to grasp. obsolete
    — 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;
  2. To take away, carry off, apprehend. obsolete
  3. To clear; to go beyond. obsolete,transitive

词形变化

hents present,singular,third-person henting participle,present hented participle,past hented past hente alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
overhent
相关词
henting

词源

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”).
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