different between hat vs hant
hat
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /hæt/
- (Canada, California, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [hat]
- (Northern US) IPA(key): [h?t]
- Rhymes: -æt
Etymology 1
From Middle English hat, from Old English hæt (“head-covering, hat”), from Proto-Germanic *hattuz (“hat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kad?- (“to guard, cover, care for, protect”). Cognate with North Frisian hat (“hat”), Danish hat (“hat”), Swedish hatt (“hat”), Icelandic hattur (“hat”), Latin cassis (“helmet”), Lithuanian kudas (“bird's crest or tuft”), Avestan ????????????????????? (xaoda, “hat”), Persian ???? (xud, “helmet”), Welsh cadw (“to provide for, ensure”). Compare also hood.
Noun
hat (plural hats)
- A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.
- There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
- (figuratively) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
- 1993, Susan Loesser, A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life: A Portrait by His Daughter, Hal Leonard Corporation (2000), ?ISBN, p.121:
- My mother was wearing several hats in the early fifties: hostess, scout, wife, and mother.
- 1993, Susan Loesser, A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life: A Portrait by His Daughter, Hal Leonard Corporation (2000), ?ISBN, p.121:
- (figuratively) Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery.
- (figuratively, by extension) The lottery or draw itself.
- (figuratively, by extension) The lottery or draw itself.
- (video games) A hat switch.
- 2002, Ernest Pazera, Focus on SDL, p.139:
- The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats, and balls.
- 2002, Ernest Pazera, Focus on SDL, p.139:
- (typography, nonstandard, rare) The há?ek symbol.
- 1997 October 6th, “Patricia V. Lehman” (user name), rec.antiques (Usenet newsgroup), “Re: Unusual Mark – made in Cechoslovakia”, Message ID: <[email protected]>#1/1
- I’lll have to leave it up to antiques experts to tell you when objects were marked that way, but I can tell you it’s called a “hacek” (with the hat over the “c” and pronounced “hacheck”.) It is used to show that a “c” is pronounced as “ch” and an “s” as “sh.” Sometimes linguists just call it the “hat.”
- 1997 October 6th, “Patricia V. Lehman” (user name), rec.antiques (Usenet newsgroup), “Re: Unusual Mark – made in Cechoslovakia”, Message ID: <[email protected]>#1/1
- (programming, informal) The caret symbol ^.
- (Internet slang) User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.
- (Cambridge University slang, obsolete) A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).
Synonyms
- (student and nobleman): gold hatband, tuft
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:headwear
Derived terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: ati
Translations
See also
- take one's hat off to
Verb
hat (third-person singular simple present hats, present participle hatting, simple past and past participle hatted)
- (transitive) To place a hat on.
- (transitive) To appoint as cardinal.
- 1929, "Five New Hats," Time, 2 December, 1929, [2]
- It was truly a breathtaking rise. From the quiet school, Pope Pius XI had jumped Father Verdier over the heads of innumerable Bishops, made him Archbishop of Paris. Soon he was to be hatted a Prince of the Church and put in charge of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.
- 1929, "Five New Hats," Time, 2 December, 1929, [2]
Etymology 2
Verb
hat
- (Scotland, Northern England or obsolete) simple past tense of hit
References
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language
Further reading
- hat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- ATH, aht, tha
Cimbrian
Verb
hat
- third-person singular present indicative of haban
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse hattr, h?ttr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [had?]
Noun
hat c (singular definite hatten, plural indefinite hatte)
- hat
Inflection
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hat/
- Rhymes: -at
Verb
hat
- third-person singular present of haben
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?h?t]
- Rhymes: -?t
Etymology 1
From Proto-Finno-Ugric *kutte (“six”). Cognates include Finnish kuusi, Mansi ???? (h?t), Khanty ??? (x?t).
Numeral
hat
- six
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
hat
- (intransitive, obsolete) to get, arrive at, pass, progress towards (a certain location)
- Synonyms: hatol, ér, jut
- 1863, János Arany, Rege a csodaszarvasról (The Legend of the Wondrous Hunt, translated by E.D. Butler)
- Süppedékes mély tavaknak / Szigetére ?k behatnak.
- An island fair to reach, they pass / Through treacherous pool and deep morass.
- Süppedékes mély tavaknak / Szigetére ?k behatnak.
- (intransitive, archaic or literary) to enter, penetrate
- Synonym: hatol
- (intransitive) to take effect, to be effective, to work
- Synonyms: hatásos, m?ködik, beválik
- (intransitive) to affect, to have influence, to act (on something -ra/-re)
- Synonyms: kihat, érint, befolyásol
- (intransitive) to seem, appear (as something -nak/-nek)
- Synonyms: t?nik, látszik
Conjugation
Derived terms
(With verbal prefixes):
Further reading
- (six): hat in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
- (to take effect): hat in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hat??/
Noun
hat
- h-prothesized form of at
Verb
hat
- h-prothesized form of at
Kholosi
Etymology
From Sanskrit ???? (hasta).
Noun
hat ?
- (anatomy) hand
References
- Eric Anonby; Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014) , “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx?[3], pages 13-36
Luxembourgish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ha?t/
Verb
hat
- inflection of hunn:
- first/third-person singular preterite indicative
- second-person plural preterite indicative
Verb
hat
- inflection of haen:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Maricopa
Noun
hat (plural haat)
- dog
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English hæt, hætt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz.
Alternative forms
- hatt, hatte, hæt
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hat/
Noun
hat (plural hattes or hatten)
- A hat or cap; a piece of headgear or headwear.
- A helmet; a hat used as armour.
- (rare) A circlet or tiara; a ring-shaped piece of headgear.
- (rare) A circle of foam or mist.
- (rare) A area of hilly woodland.
Related terms
- hater
- haterynge
- hatten
- hattere
- ketil-hat
Descendants
- Scots: hat, hatt, hate, hait
- English: hat
- ? Irish: hata
References
- “hat, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-18.
Etymology 2
Noun
hat
- Alternative form of hate
North Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian hit.
Pronoun
hat
- it
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz.
Noun
hat n (definite singular hatet, indefinite plural hat, definite plural hata or hatene)
- hatred, hate
Derived terms
- hatefull
- hater
Related terms
- hate (verb)
Etymology 2
Verb
hat
- imperative of hate
References
- “hat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h??t/
Etymology 1
From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz. Akin to English hate.
Noun
hat n (definite singular hatet, indefinite plural hat, definite plural hata)
- hatred, hate
Derived terms
- hatar
- hatefull
Etymology 2
Verb
hat
- imperative of hate
References
- “hat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /x??t/, [h??t]
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *haitaz. Cognate with Old Frisian h?t (West Frisian hjit), Old Saxon h?t, Dutch heet, Old High German heiz (German heiß), Old Norse heitr (Swedish het). Cognate to Albanian ethe (“shiver, fiever”), dialectal hethe and ith (“warmth, body heat”), dialectal hith.
Adjective
h?t
- hot, fierce
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: hot, hoth, whote
- English: hot
- Scots: hat, hait, hate
- Yola: hoat, hote
Etymology 2
From h?tan.
Noun
h?t n
- a promise
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h??t/
Noun
hat n (uncountable)
- hatred, haught
Declension
Related terms
- hata
- hatbrott
- judehat
- rashat
Tok Pisin
Etymology 1
From English hat.
Noun
hat
- hat
Etymology 2
From English hard.
Adverb
hat
- hard
Related terms
- hatpela
- hatwok
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic ????? (?a??).
Noun
hat (definite accusative hat?, plural hatlar)
- line
- writing
Declension
Turkmen
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic ????? (?a??).
Noun
hat (definite accusative haty, plural hatlar)
- letter (written message)
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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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