hant
English
Etymology 1
See haunt.
Noun
hant (plural hants)
- (Scotland, US, colloquial, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Alternative form of haunt, haint (“ghost”)
- 1907, Harold Bell Wright, New York: A.L. Burt, The Shepherd of the Hills, Chapter I, 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, Suwannee River: Strange Green Land, New York: The Literary Guild of America, Chapter Three, 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, American Negro Folktales, Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett, "Spirits and Hants", 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, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 22, 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.
- 1907, Harold Bell Wright, New York: A.L. Burt, The Shepherd of the Hills, Chapter I, page 20:
Etymology 2
Contraction
hant
Anagrams
Cimbrian
Etymology
From Middle High German hant, from Old High German hant. Cognate with German Hand, English hand.
Noun
hant f (plural hénte, diminutive héntle)
- (Sette Comuni) hand
- An hant bèsset d'àndar.
- One hand washes the other.
Declension
Declension of hant – 2nd declension
Derived terms
References
- “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
Pronunciation
Noun
hant (plural hantok)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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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
Further reading
- 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
Etymology
Noun
hant f
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
Further reading
- “hant”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “hant”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Old Dutch
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *handu.
Noun
hant f
Inflection
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Declension of hant
Alternative forms
- ande (in compounds)
Descendants
Further reading
- “hant”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *handu, whence also Old English hand, Old Norse hǫnd, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃 (handus).
Noun
hant f
Declension
declension of hant
Descendants
- Middle High German: hant
References
- Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
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