hint的词源
英文词源
- hint (n.)
- c. 1600, apparently from obsolete hent, from Middle English hinten "to tell, inform" (c. 1400), from Old English hentan "to seize," from Proto-Germanic *hantijan (cognates: Gothic hinþan "to seize"), related to hunt (v.). Modern sense and spelling first attested in Shakespeare.
- hint (v.)
- 1640s, from hint (n.). Related: Hinted; hinting.
中文词源
来自中古英语hinten,告知，通知，来自古英语hentan,抓住，词源同hunt.引申词义暗示。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：hint 词源，hint 含义。
来源于古英语。
同源词：hunt
