hant

See haunt.

hant (plural hants)

1. (Scotland, US, colloquial, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Alternative form of haunt, haint (“ghost”)
   • 1907, Harold Bell Wright, chapter I, in The Shepherd of the Hills, New York: A.L. Burt, 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, chapter 3, in Suwannee River: Strange Green Land‎^[1], New York: The Literary Guild of America, 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, “Spirits and Hants”, in American Negro Folktales, Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett, 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, chapter 22, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‎^[2], New York: Bantam, published 1971, 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.

hant

1. Pronunciation spelling of hadn’t.

• tahn, Hnat, Than, Nath, NAHT, -anth, than, anth.

From Middle High German hant, from Old High German hant. Cognate with German Hand, English hand.

hant f (plural hénte, diminutive héntle)

1. (Sette Comuni) hand

   An hant bèsset d'àndar.

   One hand washes the other.

• drukhan de hénte
• hantafa ?
• hantfala

• “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

hant f (plural handen, diminutive hantje n)

1. obsolete spelling of hand

Probably a derivation, but the root word is disputed:^[1][2]

1. From Proto-Ugric *kᴕmɜ (“clump in a marsh”) + -t (noun-forming suffix).
2. Split from han (“marsh, swamp”) (a variant of hany (“marsh, swamp”)) + -t (noun-forming suffix).

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒnt]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɒnt

hant (plural hantok)

1. clod (lump of earth) [from c. 1395]

   Synonyms: földdarab, rög

2. (poetic, rare) grass, lawn [from 1784]

   Synonyms: fű, gyep

3. (poetic) grave (place of burial) [from 1788]

   Synonym: sírhant

4. (poetic) mound, hillock (a small grass-covered mound of earth) [from c. 1600]

   Synonyms: földkupac, földhányás

• hant in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

From Old Dutch hant.

hant f

1. hand
2. person
3. side

• Dutch: hand
• Limburgish: handj
• Zealandic: and

• “hant”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “hant”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Inherited from Old High German hant, from Proto-West Germanic *handu.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈhant/

hant f

1. hand

• Bavarian: Hånd

  Cimbrian: hant

  Mòcheno: hònt

• German: Hand
• Hunsrik: Hand
• Luxembourgish: Hand
• Vilamovian: haond
• Yiddish: האַנט (hant)

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈhaːnt/

hānt

1. third-person plural present indicative of hān

From Proto-West Germanic *handu.

hant f

1. hand

• ande (in compounds)

• Middle Dutch: hant
  • Dutch: hand
  • Limburgish: handj
  • Zealandic: and

• “hant”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *handu, whence also Old English hand, Old Norse hǫnd, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃 (handus).

hant f

1. hand

• Middle High German: hant
  • Bavarian: Hånd

    Cimbrian: hant

    Mòcheno: hònt

  • German: Hand
  • Hunsrik: Hand
  • Luxembourgish: Hand
  • Vilamovian: haond
  • Yiddish: האַנט (hant)

• Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014