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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,[1]
- “ […] 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,[2]
- […] 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,[3]
- 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,[4]
- 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,[1]
Etymology 2
Contraction
hant
- Pronunciation spelling of hadn’t.
Anagrams
- -anth, Hnat, Nath, Than, tahn, than
Cimbrian
Etymology
From Middle High German hant, from Old High German hant. Cognate with German Hand, English hand.
Noun
hant f (plural hénte, diminutive héntle)
- (Sette Comuni) hand
Declension
Derived terms
- drukhan de hénte
- hàntafa ?
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): [?h?nt]
Noun
hant (plural hantok)
- clod (lump of earth)
- grave (place of burial)
Declension
Derived terms
- hantol
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch hant
Noun
hant f
- hand
- person
- side
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: hand
- Limburgish: handj
- Zealandic: and
Further reading
- “hant”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “hant”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN
Old Dutch
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *handu.
Noun
hant f
- hand
Inflection
Alternative forms
- ande (in compounds)
Descendants
- Middle Dutch: hant
- Dutch: hand
- Limburgish: handj
- Zealandic: and
Further reading
- “hant”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *handu, whence also Old English hand, Old Norse h?nd, Gothic ???????????????????????? (handus).
Noun
hant f
- hand
Declension
Descendants
- Middle High German: hant
- Bavarian: Hond
- Cimbrian: hant
- Mòcheno: hònt
- German: Hand
- Hunsrik: Hand
- Luxembourgish: Hand
- Vilamovian: haond
- Yiddish: ?????? (hant)
- Bavarian: Hond
References
- Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
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hank
English
Etymology
From Middle English hank, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse h?nk, hank; akin to Old English hangian (“to hang”). First known use: 14th century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hæ?k/
- Rhymes: -æ?k
Noun
hank (plural hanks)
- A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
- (nautical) A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.
- (Ulster) Doubt, difficulty.
- (Ulster) Mess, tangle.
- A rope or withe for fastening a gate.
- (obsolete) Hold; influence.
- 1660, Robert Sanderson, Ad Aulam
- When the devil hath got such a hank over him.
- 1660, Robert Sanderson, Ad Aulam
- (wrestling) A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward.
Translations
Verb
hank (third-person singular simple present hanks, present participle hanking, simple past and past participle hanked)
- (transitive) To form into hanks.
- (transitive, Britain, dialect) To fasten with a rope, as a gate.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)
Translations
Anagrams
- Kahn, Khan, Nakh, ankh, khan
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse h?nk
Noun
hank f or m (definite singular hanka or hanken, indefinite plural hanker, definite plural hankene)
- a handle (e.g. on a cup)
References
- “hank” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- hanke
Etymology
From Old Norse hanki
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h??k/
Noun
hank m (definite singular hanken, indefinite plural hankar, definite plural hankane)
hank f (definite singular hanka, indefinite plural hanker, definite plural hankene)
- a handle (e.g. on a cup)
References
- “hank” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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