trant

See also: Trant and tränt

English

Alternative forms

• traunt

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ænt

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English tranten, from or cognate with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Dutch tranten (“to step, walk”), perhaps ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *trent-, *trant- (“to walk”). Cognate with West Frisian trantsje (“to step, step time; dance, jump”). Compare also Dutch drentelen (“to saunter”).

Verb

trant (third-person singular simple present trants, present participle tranting, simple past and past participle tranted)

1. (intransitive) To walk; go about.
2. (intransitive) To traffic in an itinerant manner; to peddle.
3. (intransitive) To turn; play a trick.

Derived terms

• tranter

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English trant, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Dutch trant (“a step”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Dutch tranten (“to walk”). Cognate with Dutch trant (“style, manner fashion, mode”), Swedish trant (“a step”).

Noun

trant (plural trants)

1. A turn; trick; stratagem.

Derived terms

• tranty

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch trant (“a step”), from tranten (“to walk”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

trant m (uncountable)

1. manner

Derived terms

• in de trant van

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Haitian Creole

Numeral

trant

1. thirty

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• trante, traunt

Etymology

From Middle Dutch trant, from tranten (“to walk”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trant/

Noun

trant (plural trantes) (Late Middle English)

1. A stratagem, trick or trant; an act of cleverness.
2. Cleverness, trickiness; a tendency to be tricky.

Descendants

• English: trant
• ⇒ Scots: tranty

References

• “trant(e (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-18.

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Old Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *trǫtъ.

Noun

trant

1. drone (male bee)

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Westrobothnian

Noun

1. little boy

Verb

1. run, walk a little (of children)