Hants
English
Etymology
Hants is the abbreviated form of Hampshire. The abbreviated form is derived from the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English Hantum plus Scir (meaning a district governed from the settlement now known as Southampton) and the Anglo-Saxons called it Hamtunschire. At the time of the Domesday Book (1086) this was compressed to Hantescire.[1]
- ^ “About Hampshire”, in Hantsweb[1], 2016 September 8 (last accessed), archived from the original on 4 March 2012
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ænts
Proper noun
Hants