sannt

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zant/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ant
  • Homophone: Sand

Verb

sannt

  1. second-person plural preterite of sinnen

Middle English

Noun

sannt

  1. (Ormulum) alternative form of seynt

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish sant, of uncertain origin; cognate with Manx saynt and Irish saint. Possibly borrowed from Proto-Brythonic *hwant (the source of Welsh chwant (desire)),[1] from Proto-Celtic *swantos, provided the borrowing happened before *s became *h in Brythonic but after *ant became *ēdd in Goidelic, as the inherited Old Irish descendant of *swantos is sét (whence seud (jewel)). Against this hypothesis is the fact that Old Irish sét and Welsh chwant are masculine, while Old Irish sant and its descendants are feminine.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /s̪ãũn̪ˠt̪/[2]

Noun

sannt m (genitive singular sannta or sainnt)

  1. avarice, greed, covetousness, ambition, desire

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of sannt
radical lenition
sannt shannt
after "an", t-sannt

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sant”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Rev. C. M. Robertson (1902) “Skye Gaelic”, in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, Volume XXIII: 1898-99[1], Gaelic Society of Inverness, pages 54-88

Swedish

Adjective

sannt

  1. obsolete spelling of sant