hant
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
See haunt.
Noun edit
hant (plural hants)
- (Scotland, US, colloquial, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Alternative form of haunt, haint (“ghost”)
- 1907, Harold Bell Wright, chapter I, in The Shepherd of the Hills, New York: A.L. Burt, page 20:
- “ […] Say, Mister, did you ever see a hant?”
The gentleman did not understand.
“A hant, a ghost, some calls ’em,” explained Jed.
- 1934, Cecile Hulse Matschat, chapter 3, in Suwannee River: Strange Green Land[1], New York: The Literary Guild of America, page 52:
- […] he shivered as though a hant had touched him with its ghostly fingers, for night was near and he was alone in a depth of the swamp where he had never been before.
- 1967, Richard M. Dorson, “Spirits and Hants”, in American Negro Folktales, Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett, page 213:
- The term “hant” covers all malevolent and inexplicable sights and sounds. Primarily hants protect buried treasure and linger about ghoulish death spots.
- 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 22, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings[2], New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 140:
- Naturally, I believed in hants and ghosts and “thangs.” Having been raised by a super-religious Southern Negro grandmother, it would have been abnormal had I not been superstitious.
Etymology 2 edit
Contraction edit
hant
Anagrams edit
Cimbrian edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German hant, from Old High German hant. Cognate with German Hand, English hand.
Noun edit
hant f (plural hénte, diminutive héntle)
- (Sette Comuni) hand
- An hant bèsset d'àndar.
- One hand washes the other.
Declension edit
Declension of hant – 2nd declension
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “hant” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
Probably a derivation, but the root word is disputed:[1][2]
- From Proto-Ugric *kᴕmɜ (“clump in a marsh”) + -t (noun-forming suffix).
- Split from han (“marsh, swamp”) (a variant of hany (“marsh, swamp”)) + -t (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hant (plural hantok)
- clod (lump of earth) [from c. 1395]
- (poetic, rare) grass, lawn [from 1784]
- (poetic) grave (place of burial) [from 1788]
- Synonym: sírhant
- (poetic) mound, hillock (a small grass-covered mound of earth) [from c. 1600]
- Synonyms: földkupac, földhányás
Declension edit
| Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | hant | hantok |
| accusative | hantot | hantokat |
| dative | hantnak | hantoknak |
| instrumental | hanttal | hantokkal |
| causal-final | hantért | hantokért |
| translative | hanttá | hantokká |
| terminative | hantig | hantokig |
| essive-formal | hantként | hantokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | hantban | hantokban |
| superessive | hanton | hantokon |
| adessive | hantnál | hantoknál |
| illative | hantba | hantokba |
| sublative | hantra | hantokra |
| allative | hanthoz | hantokhoz |
| elative | hantból | hantokból |
| delative | hantról | hantokról |
| ablative | hanttól | hantoktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
hanté | hantoké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
hantéi | hantokéi |
| Possessive forms of hant | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | hantom | hantjaim |
| 2nd person sing. | hantod | hantjaid |
| 3rd person sing. | hantja | hantjai |
| 1st person plural | hantunk | hantjaink |
| 2nd person plural | hantotok | hantjaitok |
| 3rd person plural | hantjuk | hantjaik |
Derived terms edit
Compound words
References edit
- ^ hant in Gerstner, Károly (ed.). Új magyar etimológiai szótár. (’New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian’). Beta version. Budapest, MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet / Magyar Nyelvtudományi Kutatóközpont, 2011–2022. (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary). Language abbreviations
- ^ Entry #1785 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
Further reading edit
- hant in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Middle Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
hant f
Inflection edit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “hant”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “hant”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Middle High German edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old High German hant, from Proto-West Germanic *handu.
Noun edit
hant f
Declension edit
Declension of hant (feminine, i-stem)
Descendants edit
Old Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *handu.
Noun edit
hant f
Inflection edit
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Declension of hant
Alternative forms edit
- ande (in compounds)
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “hant”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Old High German edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *handu, whence also Old English hand, Old Norse hǫnd, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃 (handus).
Noun edit
hant f
Declension edit
declension of hant
Descendants edit
- Middle High German: hant
References edit
- Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014