different between dunt vs duat

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English dunt, dynt, from Old English dynt (“dint, blow, strike, stroke, bruise, stripe, thud, the mark or noise of a blow, a bruise, noise, crash”), from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“shock, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?en- (“to beat, push”). Cognate with Swedish dialectal dunt (“stroke”).

Noun

dunt (plural dunts)

1. (Scotland) A stroke; a dull-sounding blow.

Verb

dunt (third-person singular simple present dunts, present participle dunting, simple past and past participle dunted)

1. (Scotland) To strike; give a blow to; knock.

Etymology 2

Noun

dunt (uncountable)

1. (Britain, dialect) The disease gid or sturdy in sheep.

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

• dun't

Contraction

dunt

1. (Yorkshire) Pronunciation spelling of don't.

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

dunt

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of dunnen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of dunnen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

dunt

1. past participle of dynja

Old French

Preposition

dunt

1. of; of which; of whom

Usage notes

• Like French dont, may be translated by of whom when it refers to a person and of which when it does not.

Descendants

• Middle French: dont
  • French: dont

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Egyptian dw?t.

Noun

duat (plural duats)

1. (mythology) The realm of the dead in Egyptian mythology.

Swedish

Verb

duat

1. supine of dua.