hent
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.30 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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;"
- "And in the grekynge of the day Sir Gawayne hente his hors wondyrs for to seke."
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: henten, hentan, *hantijan, *hantijaną
Usage
Inflected Forms
hents (present, singular)
henting (participle, present)
hented (participle, past)
hented (past)
hente (alternative)