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hant (pluralhants)

1. (Scotland, US, colloquial, chiefly African-American Vernacular)Alternative form ofhaunt,haint(“ghost”)
   • 1907,Harold Bell Wright, chapter I, inThe Shepherd of the Hills, New York: A.L. Burt,page20:

     “[…] Say, Mister, did you ever see ahant?”
     The gentleman did not understand.
     “Ahant, a ghost, some calls ’em,” explained Jed.

   • 1934,Cecile Hulse Matschat, chapter 3, inSuwannee River: Strange Green Land‎^[1], New York: The Literary Guild of America, page52:

     […] he shivered as though ahant 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”, inAmerican Negro Folktales, Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett,page213:

     The term “hant” covers all malevolent and inexplicable sights and sounds. Primarilyhants protect buried treasure and linger about ghoulish death spots.

   • 1969,Maya Angelou, chapter 22, inI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‎^[2], New York: Bantam, published1971, page140:

     Naturally, I believed inhants and ghosts and “thangs.” Having been raised by a super-religious Southern Negro grandmother, it would have been abnormal had I not been superstitious.

hant (third-person singular simple presenthants,present participlehanting,simple past and past participlehanted)

1. (US, colloquial, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Tohaunt.

hant

1. Pronunciation spelling ofhadn’t.

• tahn,Hnat,Than,Nath,NAHT,-anth,than,anth.

FromMiddle High Germanhant, fromOld High Germanhant. Cognate withGermanHand,Englishhand.

hant f (pluralhénte, diminutivehéntle)

1. (Sette Comuni)hand

   Anhant bèsset d'àndar.

   Onehand washes the other.

• drukhan de hénte
• hantafa ?
• hantfala

• “hant” inMartalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974),Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

hant f (pluralhanden,diminutivehantje n)

1. obsolete spelling ofhand

Probably a derivation, but the root word is disputed:^[1][2]

1. FromProto-Ugric*kᴕmɜ(“clump in a marsh”) +-t(noun-forming suffix).
2. Split fromhan(“marsh, swamp”) (a variant ofhany(“marsh, swamp”)) +-t(noun-forming suffix).

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒnt]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes:-ɒnt

hant (pluralhantok)

1. clod(lump of earth)[from c. 1395]

   Synonyms:földdarab,rög

2. (poetic, rare)grass,lawn[from 1784]

   Synonyms:fű,gyep

3. (poetic)grave(place of burial)[from 1788]

   Synonym:sírhant

4. (poetic)mound,hillock(a small grass-covered mound of earth)[from c. 1600]

   Synonyms:földkupac,földhányás

• hant in Géza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.

FromOld Dutchhant.

hant f

1. hand
2. person
3. side

• Dutch:hand
• Limburgish:handj
• Zealandic:and

• “hant”, inVroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek,2000
• Verwijs, E.;Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “hant”, inMiddelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff,→ISBN

Inherited fromOld High Germanhant, fromProto-West Germanic*handu.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE)/ˈhant/

hant f

1. hand

• Bavarian:Hånd

  Cimbrian:hant

  Mòcheno:hònt

• German:Hand
• Hunsrik:Hand
• Luxembourgish:Hand
• Vilamovian:haond
• Yiddish:האַנט(hant)

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE)/ˈhaːnt/

hānt

1. third-personpluralpresentindicative ofhān

FromProto-West Germanic*handu.

hant f

1. hand

• ande(in compounds)

• Middle Dutch:hant
  • Dutch:hand
  • Limburgish:handj
  • Zealandic:and

• “hant”, inOudnederlands Woordenboek,2012

Inherited fromProto-West Germanic*handu, whence alsoOld Englishhand,Old Norsehǫnd,Gothic𐌷𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃(handus).

hant f

1. hand

• Middle High German:hant
  • Bavarian:Hånd

    Cimbrian:hant

    Mòcheno:hònt

  • German:Hand
  • Hunsrik:Hand
  • Luxembourgish:Hand
  • Vilamovian:haond
  • Yiddish:האַנט(hant)

• Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014

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