- hint (n.)
[hint 词源字典]
- 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 etymology, hint origin, 英语词源]
- hint (v.)
- 1640s, from hint (n.). Related: Hinted; hinting.