You can picture someone who goes out after the animal instead of waiting for it. He walks into the wood, he reads the ground, he keeps the dogs with him, and he closes the distance himself. Every use of this word keeps that shape: the chaser, not the waiter.
可以想成一個主動走出去找獵物的人。他走進樹林，看地上的痕跡，帶著狗，自己一步一步把距離縮短。他不是坐著等東西自己送上門。這個字的每一個用法，都還留著這個形狀：追的那一方。連那種不結網的大蜘蛛叫這個名字，走的也是同一條線。
From the word’s history
From hunt plus a linking -s- plus -man: literally the man of the hunt. English has a row of words built the same way, such as sportsman and craftsman.
由 hunt（打獵）、中間連接的 -s-、加上 -man（人）組成，字面就是「打獵的那個人」。英文裡 sportsman、craftsman、salesman 都是同一個做法。
Wiktionary entry for huntsman (local kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:966269828): From hunt + -s- + -man.
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