Editing Hunting (section)

==Etymology==
The word ''hunt'' serves as both a [[noun]] ("the act, the practice, or an instance of hunting") and a [[verb]] ("to pursue for food or in sport").<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-24 |title=Definition of HUNT |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hunt |access-date=2023-06-04 |website=www.merriam-webster.com |language=en |archive-date=20 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230220144709/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hunt |url-status=live }}</ref> The noun has been dated to the early 12th century, from the verb ''hunt''. [[Old English]] had ''huntung, huntoþ''.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=hunt {{!}} Etymology, origin and meaning of hunt by etymonline |url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/hunt |access-date=2023-06-04 |website=www.etymonline.com |language=en |archive-date=4 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604144210/https://www.etymonline.com/word/hunt |url-status=live }}</ref> The meaning of "a body of persons associated for the purpose of hunting with a pack of hounds" is first recorded in the 1570s. "The act of searching for someone or something" is from about 1600.<ref name=":5" />

The verb, Old English ''huntian'' "to chase game" ([[Transitive verb|transitive]] and [[Intransitive verb|intransitive]]), perhaps developed from ''hunta'' "hunter," is related to ''hentan'' "to seize," from [[Proto-Germanic language|Proto-Germanic]] ''huntojan'' (the source also of [[Gothic language|Gothic]] ''hinþan'' "to seize, capture," [[Old High German]] ''hunda'' "booty"), which is of uncertain origin. The general sense of "search diligently" (for anything) is first recorded c. 1200.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url= http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=hunt |author= Harper, Douglas |title= Hunt |dictionary= Online Etymology Dictionary |access-date= 24 December 2016}}</ref>