coont

From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“I compute”).

• IPA^(key): /kunt/

coont (third-person singular simple present coonts, present participle coontin, simple past coontt, past participle coontt)

1. to count, to do arithmetic
2. to settle (accounts) [with to or with ‘to have a yearly settlement with the landlord’]

coont (plural coonts)

1. a sum in arithmetic
2. account

• “coont”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
• Eagle, Andy, editor (2025), “coont”, in The Online Scots Dictionary‎^[1]