Probably derived fromNorthern Ndebeleumuntu, with stress on the first syllable, which is uncommon forNguni languages. FromProto-Bantu*mʊ̀ntʊ̀(“person”).
munt (pluralmunts)
- (Rhodesia, slang, originally military, derogatory, offensive, ethnicslur) A black person, usually a man.
1964 [1957],Colin MacInnes,City of Spades, London: Penguin Books,page22:My Dad has taught me that in England some foolish man may call me sambo, darkie, boot ormunt or nigger, even.
2006, Geoffrey Nyarota,Against the Grain: Memoirs of a Zimbabwean Newsman, Zebra Press, page63:Munt was a derogatory term used by the [Rhodesian] security forces to refer to blacks.
Related tomunted; see there for more.
munt (third-person singular simple presentmunts,present participlemunting,simple past and past participlemunted)
- (Australia, slang) Tovomit (usually whiledrunk).
- (slang) To engage in the act ofmunting.
Blend ofman +cunt.
munt (pluralmunts)
- (slang)mangina
munt (pluralmunts)
- (New Zealand, slang, used byschoolchildren) Something or someone dumb or annoying.
munt (pluralmunte,diminutivemuntjie)
- coin
- mint
Inherited fromLatinmontem.
munt m (pluralmunts)
- (also figurative)heap,pile,a lot
- unmunt de… ―a heap (of things)
- N'hi ha unmunt ―there is a lot (of it)
- (archaic or toponyms)synonym ofmuntanya
FromMiddle Dutchmunte, fromOld Dutchmunita, from lateProto-West Germanic*munit(“coin”).
munt f (pluralmunten,diminutivemuntje n)
- coin
- Synonym:muntstuk
- currency
- Synonym:munteenheid
- tails(side of a coin)
- Antonyms:kop,kruis
- mint(institution)
FromMiddle Dutchmente,minte, from lateProto-West Germanic*mintā(“mint”), fromLatinmenta.Doublet ofmint.
munt f (uncountable,nodiminutive)
- mint(plant), of genusMentha
munt n (uncountable,nodiminutive)
- mint(colour)
- Synonyms:mintgroen,mint
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
munt
- inflection ofmunten:
- first/second/third-personsingularpresentindicative
- imperative
- “munt” inWoordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
- “munt” inVan Dale Onlinewoordenboek, Van Dale Lexicografie, 2007.
munt
- alternative form ofmount
munt
- alternative form ofmounten
munt
- alternative form ofmynt(“strike”)
FromProto-West Germanic*munþ.
munt m
- mouth
Declension ofmunt (masculine a-stem noun)
- “munt”, inOudnederlands Woordenboek,2012
Borrowed fromLatinmōns, montem.
munt m
- ahill,mound
- amount ormountain
- Old English Heptateuch,Genesis 19:30
Loth þā ne dorste lenġ wunian on Segor ac ferde mid hys twām dohtrum afirht tō þāmmunte, and þār on ānum sċræfe ealle þrēo wunedon- Frightened, Lot dared not stay in Zoar, but went with his two daughters to themountain, and there all three of them lived in a cave.
- "Gospel of Saint Luke", chapter 4, verse 29
And hiġ ārīson and scūfon hine of ðǣre ceastre. And lǣddon hine ofer ðæsmuntes cnæpp. Ofer þone hyra buruh ġetimbrud wæs. þ hī hyne nyðer bescūfon.- And they arose and shoved him from the city. And led him over themount's top. Over that their city was built. That they thrusted him downward.
Stronga-stem:
FromLatinmōns.
muntoblique singular, m (oblique pluralmunzormuntz,nominative singularmunzormuntz,nominative pluralmunt)
- (Anglo-Norman)alternative form ofmont(“mountain”)
FromLatinmundus.
muntoblique singular, m (oblique pluralmunzormuntz,nominative singularmunzormuntz,nominative pluralmunt)
- (Anglo-Norman)alternative form ofmonde(“world”)
