dunt

English

Etymology

From Middle English dunt, dynt, from Old English dynt (“dint, blow, strike, stroke, bruise, stripe, thud, the mark or noise of a blow, a bruise, noise, crash”), from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“shock, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhen- (“to beat, push”). Cognate with Swedish dialectal dunt (“stroke”).

Noun

dunt (plural dunts)

1. (Scotland) A stroke; a dull-sounding blow

Verb

dunt (third-person singular simple present dunts, present participle dunting, simple past and past participle dunted)

1. (Scotland) To strike; give a blow to; knock.

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

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Dutch

Verb

dunt

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of dunnen
2. plural imperative of dunnen