bant
See also: bánt
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -ænt
NounEdit
bant (uncountable)
See alsoEdit
CimbrianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle High German want, from Old High German want, from Proto-Germanic *wanduz (“rod, stick; barrier made of sticks, fence”). Cognate with German Wand, Dutch wand, Icelandic vendi.
NounEdit
bant f (plural bèntar) (Sette Comuni)
- wall, partition
- De bénte zeint de innanten maurn bon hòizarn.
- The partitions are the inner walls of houses.
- twelve fathoms
DeclensionEdit
Declension of bant – 2nd declension
ReferencesEdit
- “bant” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso, Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo, 1974
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
bant
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of bannen
- (archaic) plural imperative of bannen
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Alternative formsEdit
VerbEdit
bant
- past participle of bane (Etymology 3)
WelshEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From i bant (“to (the) hollow/valley”).
AdverbEdit
bant
- (South Wales, colloquial) away, off
- Gyrrodd e bant heb ddweud gair
- He drove away / off, without saying a word
- Synonym: i ffwrdd
- Gyrrodd e bant heb ddweud gair
- (South Wales, colloquial) off (not in an operating state)
Derived termsEdit
- amser bant (“time away, time off”)
- bant â hi (“slapdash”)
- bant â'r cart (“off we go”)
- diwrnod bant (“day away, day off”)
MutationEdit
As bant is already the soft mutation of pant, it cannot be further mutated.
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
bant
- Soft mutation of pant.
MutationEdit
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| pant | bant | mhant | phant |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||