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HUNT
Definition of HUNT
verb
To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian (“to hunt”), from Proto-West Germanic *huntōn (“to hunt, capture”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱent- (“to catch, seize”). Related to Old High German hunda (“booty”), Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (hunþs, “body of captives”), Old English hūþ (“plunder, booty, prey”), Old English hentan (“to catch, seize”). More at hent, hint. In some areas read as a collective form of hound by folk etymology.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.3%
of traced words share this origin (11,343)
How it is built
Same root, HUNT · 11 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HUNT in OUTLIER
It has fitted 1 board so far. 61 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 111, 8 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 49 days.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HUNT starts with H and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read HNTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start HUNT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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