gant

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡãnt/

From Old Breton cant, from Proto-Celtic *kanta (“together with”). Cognate with Welsh gan (“with; by”).

gant

1. with

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gant

1. soft mutation of kant

Inherited from Old French guant, from Frankish *want (compare Middle Dutch want, Old High German wantus), from Proto-Germanic *wantuz (“glove”). Cognate with Italian guanto, Spanish guante, and Catalan guant.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑ̃/

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gant m (plural gants)

1. glove

• → Greek: γάντι (gánti)

• “gant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French guant, from Frankish *want, from Proto-Germanic *wantuz (“glove”).

gant m (plural gants)

1. (Jersey) glove

From Old Occitan guant, from Frankish *want, from Proto-Germanic *wantuz (“glove”).

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gant m (plural gants)

1. glove

The verb is possibly derived from Middle English *ganten, from Old English *gānettan, a frequentative of gānian (“to gape, open, open wide; to yawn”)^[1][2] (whence Middle English ganen, gane, gonen),^[3][4] from Proto-West Germanic *gainōn (“to yawn”), from Proto-Germanic *gainōną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to gape; to yawn”).

The noun is derived from the verb.^[5]

gant (third-person singular simple present gants, present participle gantin, simple past gantt, past participle gantt) (intransitive)

1. To open the mouth wide to breathe; to gasp.
2. To yawn.
3. (figurative)
   1. Of a thing: to open wide; to gape.
   2. To make exaggerated statements.
4. (Caithness) To stammer, to stutter.

• gaunt

gant (plural gants)

1. A yawn.
2. (Caithness) A stammer, a stutter.

• gaunt

gant

1. soft mutation of cant