different between kent vs dover

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

Verb

kent

1. simple past tense and past participle of ken

Etymology 2

Perhaps a variant of the verb cant.

Noun

kent (plural kents)

1. (Scotland) A shepherd's staff.
2. (Scotland) A pole or pike.

Verb

kent (third-person singular simple present kents, present participle kenting, simple past and past participle kented)

1. (Scotland) To propel (a boat) using a pole.

Anagrams

• tekn-

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nt

Verb

kent

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

Anagrams

• nekt

Hungarian

Etymology

ken +? -t

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?nt]

Verb

kent

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of ken

Participle

kent

1. past participle of ken

Declension

Middle Dutch

Verb

kent

1. inflection of kennen:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   3. plural imperative

Scots

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [k?nt], [kent]

Verb

kent

1. simple past tense and past participle of ken

Adjective

kent (comparative mair kent, superlative maist kent)

1. known

Derived terms

• ert-kent

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [k?nt]

Noun

kent (plural kents)

1. shepherd's staff

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (kent, “village, town, city”), from Sogdian [script needed] (kand, “city”). Compare Old Turkic kend? (kend, “city, settlement”). Possibly cognate with Northern Kurdish gund (“village”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /c?nt/

Noun

kent (definite accusative kenti, plural kentler)

1. (countable) city

Declension

Synonyms

• ?ehir

Derived terms

See also

• köy
• kasaba

References

Weri

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?nt/

Noun

kent

1. wind

References

• Maurice Boxwell, Weri Organised Phonology Data (1992), p. 2

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?v?r

Adjective

dover

1. Comparative form of doof

Italian

Verb

dover

1. apocopic of dovere

Anagrams

• vedrò

Ladin

Verb

dover

1. Alternative form of dovei

Scots

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??v?r/
• (Hawick) enPR: d?-vur, IPA^(key): /?d???v?r/

Verb

dover (third-person singular present dovers, present participle doverin, past dovert, past participle dovert)

1. (intransitive) To doze.
2. (transitive) To send off into a light sleep.

Noun

dover (plural dovers)

1. A slight unsettled sleep.