bunt
English edit
Etymology edit
Unknown. Perhaps a nasalised variant of butt.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bunt (countable and uncountable, plural bunts)
- (nautical) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
- The bunt of the sail was green.
- A push or shove; a butt.
- (baseball, softball) A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.
- The bunt was fielded cleanly.
- (baseball, softball) The act of bunting.
- The manager will likely call for a bunt here.
- (aviation) The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
- (countable, uncountable) A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust.
- Synonym: pepperbrand
Coordinate terms edit
- (specific part of a sail): clew
- (baseball, softball): sacrifice bunt, slash bunt, swinging bunt, squeeze, safety squeeze, suicide squeeze
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
baseball: ball intentionally hit softly
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Verb edit
bunt (third-person singular simple present bunts, present participle bunting, simple past and past participle bunted)
- To push with the horns; to butt.
- To spring or rear up.
- (transitive, baseball) To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
- Jones bunted the ball.
- (intransitive, baseball) To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
- Jones bunted.
- (intransitive, aviation) To perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
- We had heard that there was an elite group of three or four pilots in Jodhpur called the "Bunt Club", who had successfully bunted their aircraft - that is, carried out the second half of an outside loop. In the Bunt, you pushed the nose down, past the vertical and still further, until you were in horizontal inverted flight, and came out on the other side and rolled it out.[1]
- (intransitive, nautical) To swell out.
- The sail bunts.
- (rare, of a cat) To headbutt affectionately.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:bunt.
Translations edit
baseball
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See also edit
German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German bunt, probably from Latin punctus, whence English point. Dutch bont seems to have somewhat earlier attestations in the relevant sense, but the phonetic form (b- for p- and Dutch -o- for -u-) could hint at Middle High German origin. It is therefore unsettled which of the two borrowed from which.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
bunt (strong nominative masculine singular bunter, comparative bunter, superlative am buntesten)
- (obsolete) spotted, speckled
- multi-colored; colorful; variegated
- Synonym: vielfarbig
- (by extension) mixed, varied, heterogeneous
- ein bunter Haufen ― a motley crew
Declension edit
Positive forms of bunt
| number & gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
| predicative | er ist bunt | sie ist bunt | es ist bunt | sie sind bunt | |
| strong declension (without article) |
nominative | bunter | bunte | buntes | bunte |
| genitive | bunten | bunter | bunten | bunter | |
| dative | buntem | bunter | buntem | bunten | |
| accusative | bunten | bunte | buntes | bunte | |
| weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der bunte | die bunte | das bunte | die bunten |
| genitive | des bunten | der bunten | des bunten | der bunten | |
| dative | dem bunten | der bunten | dem bunten | den bunten | |
| accusative | den bunten | die bunte | das bunte | die bunten | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein bunter | eine bunte | ein buntes | (keine) bunten |
| genitive | eines bunten | einer bunten | eines bunten | (keiner) bunten | |
| dative | einem bunten | einer bunten | einem bunten | (keinen) bunten | |
| accusative | einen bunten | eine bunte | ein buntes | (keine) bunten | |
Comparative forms of bunt
| number & gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
| predicative | er ist bunter | sie ist bunter | es ist bunter | sie sind bunter | |
| strong declension (without article) |
nominative | bunterer | buntere | bunteres | buntere |
| genitive | bunteren | bunterer | bunteren | bunterer | |
| dative | bunterem | bunterer | bunterem | bunteren | |
| accusative | bunteren | buntere | bunteres | buntere | |
| weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der buntere | die buntere | das buntere | die bunteren |
| genitive | des bunteren | der bunteren | des bunteren | der bunteren | |
| dative | dem bunteren | der bunteren | dem bunteren | den bunteren | |
| accusative | den bunteren | die buntere | das buntere | die bunteren | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein bunterer | eine buntere | ein bunteres | (keine) bunteren |
| genitive | eines bunteren | einer bunteren | eines bunteren | (keiner) bunteren | |
| dative | einem bunteren | einer bunteren | einem bunteren | (keinen) bunteren | |
| accusative | einen bunteren | eine buntere | ein bunteres | (keine) bunteren | |
Superlative forms of bunt
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German bunt.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bunt m (definite singular bunten, indefinite plural bunter, definite plural buntene)
- bundle, bunch
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- Mellom rammen og madrassen var det et hulrom hvor en skoeske kom til syne. Da Lex forsøkte å dra den ut, gikk den i stykker, og bunter med pengesedler ramlet på gulvet - sammen med en forniklet revolver kaliber .38 og en lyddemper.
- Between the frame and the mattress there was a cavity where a shoebox came into view. When Lex tried to pull it out it fell to pieces, and bundles of banknotes fell on the floor - together with a nickel-plated .38 calibre revolver and a silencer.
References edit
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German bunt.
Noun edit
bunt m (definite singular bunten, indefinite plural buntar, definite plural buntane)
References edit
- “bunt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Plautdietsch edit
Etymology edit
From Latin punctus (“dotted, speckled”), similar to German Punkt (“dot”).
Adjective edit
bunt
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle High German bund (originally any union, the "mutiny" sense since the 17th century).[1] Compare German Bund.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bunt m inan (diminutive buncik)
- (government, politics) mutiny, revolt
- rebellion (attitude of rejecting authority)
Declension edit
Declension of bunt
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nouns
verbs
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adjective
adverb
noun
Descendants edit
- → Russian: бунт (bunt)
References edit
- ^ Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “bunt”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna
Further reading edit
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from German Bund (“federation; conspiracy”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bùnt m (Cyrillic spelling бу̀нт)
Declension edit
Declension of bunt
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from German Bund (“alliance; waistband”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bȕnt m (Cyrillic spelling бу̏нт)
Declension edit
Declension of bunt
References edit
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German bunt, from Old Saxon *bund, from Proto-Germanic *bundą.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bunt c
- a bundle, a bunch (often of broad and flat or long and narrow objects, for example a stack of paper)
Declension edit
| Declension of bunt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | bunt | bunten | buntar | buntarna |
| Genitive | bunts | buntens | buntars | buntarnas |
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Welsh edit
Pronunciation edit
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /bɨ̞nt/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /bɪnt/
Noun edit
bunt
- Soft mutation of punt.
Mutation edit
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| punt | bunt | mhunt | phunt |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
Wolof edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
bunt