Where does “Hunt” come from?

Hunt (English) comes from Middle English hunten, from Cimbrian hunt, from Middle High German hunt, from Old High German hunt, from Proto-West Germanic hund, from Proto-Germanic hundaz, from Proto-Indo-European ḱwn̥tós, from Proto-Indo-European ḱwṓ — dog.

Hunt (English): for a hunter (for game, birds etc)

Definitions

  1. for a hunter (for game, birds etc)

Ancestry of “Hunt”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishhuntento hunt
2Cimbrianhuntdog
3Middle High Germanhuntdog (Canis familiaris)
4Old High Germanhuntdog
5Proto-West Germanichunddog
6Proto-Germanichundazdog
7Proto-Indo-Europeanḱwn̥tós
8Proto-Indo-Europeanḱwṓdog

Words derived from “Hunt

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ḱwṓ