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venery

Meaningto hunt

Common meaning: hunting

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√WI‘go, to drive’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 367, p. 743 · scan
  2. Latinvenari‘to hunt’source
  3. Old Frenchvenersource
  4. Frenchveneriesource
  5. Middle Englishveneriesource
  6. Englishmeaning shiftsto hunt → huntingvenery‘hunting’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin venari ‘to hunt’.

Roots

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