Where does “huntee” come from?

huntee (English) comes from English Hunt, 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 — dog.

huntee (English): One who is hunted

Definitions

  1. One who is hunted

Ancestry of “huntee”, step by step

huntee traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Hunt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishHuntfor a hunter (for game, birds etc)
2Middle Englishhuntento hunt
3Cimbrianhuntdog
4Middle High Germanhuntdog (Canis familiaris)
5Old High Germanhuntdog
6Proto-West Germanichunddog
7Proto-Germanichundazdog
8Proto-Indo-Europeanḱwn̥tós
9Proto-Indo-Europeanḱwṓdog

via English EE

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishEEInitialism of electrical engineering
2Cantonese
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ḱwṓ