different between hant vs rant

English

Etymology 1

See haunt.

Noun

hant (plural hants)

1. (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.

Etymology 2

Contraction

hant

1. 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)

1. (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)

1. clod (lump of earth)
2. grave (place of burial)

Declension

Derived terms

• hantol

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch hant

Noun

hant f

1. hand
2. person
3. 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

1. 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

1. hand

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: hant
  • Bavarian: Hond

    Cimbrian: hant

    Mòcheno: hònt

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

References

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

English

Etymology

From Dutch ranten, randen (“to talk nonsense, rave”), of uncertain origin; but apparently related to Middle High German ranzen (“to dance, jump around, frolic”), German ranzen (“to be ardent, be in heat, copulate, mate, ramble, join up”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?ænt/
• Rhymes: -ænt

Verb

rant (third-person singular simple present rants, present participle ranting, simple past and past participle ranted)

1. To speak or shout at length in uncontrollable anger.
2. To disseminate one's own opinions in a - typically - one-sided, strong manner.
3. To criticize by ranting.
4. (dated) To speak extravagantly, as in merriment.
5. To dance rant steps.

Translations

Noun

rant (plural rants)

1. A criticism done by ranting.
2. A wild, emotional, and sometimes incoherent articulation.
3. A type of dance step usually performed in clogs, and particularly (but not exclusively) associated with the English North West Morris tradition. The rant step consists of alternately bringing one foot across and in front of the other and striking the ground, with the other foot making a little hop.

Derived terms

• rantful

Translations

See also

• ramble
• rave

Further reading

• rant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• rant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Tarn, Tran, ar'n't, arn't, tRNA, tarn, tran, trna

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• (of rane) rana, ranet

Verb

rant

1. simple past of renne
2. past participle of rane

Polish

Etymology

From German Rand, from Middle High German rant, from Old High German rant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rant/

Noun

rant m inan

1. edge (especially coin edge)

   Synonyms: brzeg, kraw?d?

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) rantowy

Further reading

• rant in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• rant in Polish dictionaries at PWN