Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/huntōn

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *huntōną, from earlier paradigm *huntᵗōþi ~ *hundunanþi, from pre-Proto-Germanic *kunt-nā́-ti ~ *kunt-un-ánti, iterative to Proto-Germanic *hinþaną (“to chase”).

Verb

*huntōn

1. (iterative) to hunt

   Synonym: *jagōn

Inflection

Class 2 weak
Infinitive	*huntōn
1st sg. past	*huntōdā
Infinitive	*huntōn
Genitive infin.	*huntōnijas
Dative infin.	*huntōnijē
Instrum. infin.	*huntōniju
Indicative	Present	Past
1st singular	*huntō	*huntōdā
2nd singular	*huntōs	*huntōdēs, *huntōdōs
3rd singular	*huntōþ	*huntōdē, *huntōdā
1st plural	*huntōm	*huntōdum
2nd plural	*huntōþ	*huntōdud
3rd plural	*huntōnþ	*huntōdun
Subjunctive	Present	Past
1st singular	*huntō	*huntōdī
2nd singular	*huntōs	*huntōdī
3rd singular	*huntō	*huntōdī
1st plural	*huntōm	*huntōdīm
2nd plural	*huntōþ	*huntōdīd
3rd plural	*huntōn	*huntōdīn
Imperative	Present
Singular	*huntō
Plural	*huntōþ
	Present	Past
Participle	*huntōndī	*huntōd

Descendants

• Old English: huntian
  • Middle English: huntien, hunten, hounten
    • English: hunt
    • Scots: hunt

Further reading

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*hunton-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 257