hant
English
Etymology 1
See haunt.
Noun
hant (plural hants)
- (US, colloquial, chiefly African American Vernacular) A ghost; a supernatural being.
- 1907, Harold Bell Wright, New York: A.L. Burt, The Shepherd of the Hills, Chapter I, p. 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, Suwannee River: Strange Green Land, New York: The Literary Guild of America, Chapter Three, p. 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, American Negro Folktales, Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett, “Spirits and Hants,” p. 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, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 22, p. 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.
- 1907, Harold Bell Wright, New York: A.L. Burt, The Shepherd of the Hills, Chapter I, p. 20,
Cimbrian
Etymology
From Middle High German hant, from Old High German hant, from Proto-Germanic *handuz (“hand”). Cognate with German Hand, Dutch hand, English hand, Icelandic hönd.
Declension
References
- “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
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈhɒnt]
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Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | hant | hantok |
accusative | hantot | hantokat |
dative | hantnak | hantoknak |
instrumental | hanttal | hantokkal |
causal-final | hantért | hantokért |
translative | hanttá | hantokká |
terminative | hantig | hantokig |
essive-formal | hantként | hantokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | hantban | hantokban |
superessive | hanton | hantokon |
adessive | hantnál | hantoknál |
illative | hantba | hantokba |
sublative | hantra | hantokra |
allative | hanthoz | hantokhoz |
elative | hantból | hantokból |
delative | hantról | hantokról |
ablative | hanttól | hantoktól |
Possessive forms of hant | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | hantom | hantjaim |
2nd person sing. | hantod | hantjaid |
3rd person sing. | hantja | hantjai |
1st person plural | hantunk | hantjaink |
2nd person plural | hantotok | hantjaitok |
3rd person plural | hantjuk | hantjaik |
Derived terms
- hantol
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch hant, from Proto-Germanic *handuz.
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: hand
- Limburgish: handj
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *handuz, whence also Old English hand, Old Norse hǫnd, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃 (handus).
Declension
Declension of hant
case | singular | plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | hant | hanti |
accusative | hant | hanti |
genitive | hanti | hanto, hanteo, hantio |
dative | hanti | hantum, hantun, hanton |
instrumental | hanti | hantum, hantun, hanton |
Descendants
References
- Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
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