different between leant vs lant

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?nt/
• Homophones: lent, Lent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Verb

leant

1. (chiefly Britain) simple past tense and past participle of lean

Anagrams

• Antle, ental, laten

English

Etymology 1

Alteration of earlier land (“urine”), from Middle English land (“urine”), from Old English hland (“urine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hland, from Proto-Germanic *hland? (“urine”), from Proto-Indo-European *kl?n- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Icelandic hland (“urine”), Norwegian Nynorsk land (“urine”).

Noun

lant (uncountable)

1. Aged urine.

Translations

Verb

lant (third-person singular simple present lants, present participle lanting, simple past and past participle lanted)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To flavor (ale) with aged urine.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

lant (uncountable)

1. (Britain, dialect, Northern England) Obsolete form of lanterloo. (the card game)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Etymology 3

Compare lance.

Noun

lant (plural lants)

1. Any of several species of slender marine fishes of the genus Ammodytes. The common European species (Ammodytes tobianus) and the American species (Ammodytes americanus) live on sandy shores, buried in the sand, and are caught in large quantities for bait.

Synonyms

• launce
• sand eel
• sand lance

Anagrams

• Nat'l, natl.

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• lånt (Luserna)

Etymology

From Middle High German lant, from Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land?. Cognate with German Land, English land.

Noun

lant n (plural lèntar) (Sette Comuni)

1. land
2. country, nation

Declension

References

• “lant” 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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??/

Noun

lant m (plural lants)

1. (zoology) zebu (Bos taurus indicus)

Synonyms

• zébu

Further reading

• “lant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Germanic language, possibly via Bavarian. Attested around 1405. Compare Middle High German lute, Early New High German laut, German Laute, from Old French leüt, from Arabic ????????? (al-??d, “wood, lute”) (literally, "the wood").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?nt]
• Hyphenation: lant

Noun

lant (plural lantok)

1. (music) lute

Declension

Synonyms

• koboz
• líra

Derived terms

• lantos

(Compound words):

• forgólant
• teker?lant

References

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch lant

Noun

lant n

1. (dry) land
2. (piece of) land
3. country, region
4. ground, earth

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: land
  • Afrikaans: land
  • ? Sranan Tongo: lanti
• Limburgish: landj
• Zealandic: land

Further reading

• “lant”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “lant”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German lant

Noun

lant n

1. land
2. country

Descendants

• Alemannic German: Land, Lånd

  Swabian: Lahnd

• Bavarian: Land, Lond, Laund, Lånd

  Cimbrian: lant, lånt

• Central Franconian: Land, Lannt

  Hunsrik: Land

  Luxembourgish: Land

• German: Land
  • ? Polish: l?d
• Rhine Franconian:

  Palatine German: Lond

  Pennsylvania German: Land, Lond

• Vilamovian: ?aond
• Yiddish: ?????? (land)

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *land.

Noun

lant n

1. land (as opposed to water)
2. land, terrain
3. territory

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: lant
  • Dutch: land
    • Afrikaans: land
    • ? Sranan Tongo: lanti
  • Limburgish: landj
  • Zealandic: land

Further reading

• “lant”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *land.

Compare Old Saxon land, Old Frisian land, lond, Old Dutch lant, Old English land, lond, Old Norse land, Gothic ???????????????? (land).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lant/

Noun

lant n

1. land
2. country

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: lant
  • Alemannic German: Land, Lånd

    Swabian: Lahnd

  • Bavarian: Land, Lond, Laund, Lånd

    Cimbrian: lant, lånt

  • Central Franconian: Land, Lannt

    Hunsrik: Land

    Luxembourgish: Land

  • German: Land
    • ? Polish: l?d
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Palatine German: Lond

    Pennsylvania German: Land, Lond

  • Vilamovian: ?aond
  • Yiddish: ?????? (land)