Hunta
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hunta
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- hunta
- Add: -- Wæs Esau gléw hunta (vir gnarus venandi), Gen. 27, 27. Deáð æfter moncynne, egeslic hunta, á bið on waðe, Met. 27, 13. Of huntan gríne losian, Ps. Th. 123, 6. Tó huntan wícan, C. D. iii. 219, 9. Ðis is ðára .iii. hída landbóc . . . ðe Æðelréd cing gebócode Leófwine his huntan, 230, 25. On huntena weg, 48, 10. Tó huntena forda, liberavit me de laqueo venantium, Ps. Th. 90, 3. Ic ásende míne huntan (venatores), and hi huntiað hí of ǽlcere dúne, Hml. Th. i. 576, 27. Hét se cásere his huntan hine ðǽr gefeccean and hine mid sueorde ofsleán, Shrn. 72, 8. in place names :-- Duas mansas iuxta Huntandúne, C. D. iii. 101, 17. Huntedúne, 94, 3. iii. cassatos aet Huntenatún, - i. 207, I. Hae sunt uillulae, Huntanawoð, Herþoðford, iv. 164, 27. [v. N. E. D. hunt a huntsman.] v. heáhdeórhunta. hunta a spider. Dr. Bradley suggests that in 1. 2 spí þra should be read for sþíþra which is the MS. reading. hunta