different between tranter vs trant

English

Alternative forms

• traunter

Etymology

trant +? -er

Noun

tranter (plural tranters)

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) One who trants; a peddler; a carrier.
   • 1879, William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, Dobbin Dead

     An’ he met wi’ zome yew-twigs the men had a-cast

     Vrom the yew-tree, in churchyard, the road that he past.

     He wer pweison’d. (1.) O dear, ’tis a hard loss to bear,

     Vor a tranter’s whole bread is a-lost wi’ his meäre;

   • 1929 Florence Hardy "The Early Life of Thomas Hardy, 1841-1891"

     ...the persons tenanting these few houses included two retired military officers, one old navy lieutenant, a small farmer and tranter, a relieving officer and registrar, and an old militiaman […]

English

Alternative forms

• traunt

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ænt

Etymology 1

From Middle English tranten, from or cognate with Middle Dutch tranten (“to step, walk”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *trent-, *trant- (“to walk”). Cognate with West Frisian trantsje (“to step, step time; dance, jump”). Compare also Dutch drentelen (“to saunter”).

Verb

trant (third-person singular simple present trants, present participle tranting, simple past and past participle tranted)

1. (intransitive) To walk; go about.
2. (intransitive) To traffic in an itinerant manner; to peddle.
3. (intransitive) To turn; play a trick.

Derived terms

• tranter

Etymology 2

From Middle English trant, from Middle Dutch trant (“a step”), from tranten (“to walk”). Cognate with Dutch trant (“style, manner fashion, mode”), Swedish trant (“a step”).

Noun

trant (plural trants)

1. A turn; trick; stratagem.

Derived terms

• tranty

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch trant (“a step”), from tranten (“to walk”).

Pronunciation

Noun

trant m (uncountable)

1. manner

Derived terms

• in de trant van

Haitian Creole

Numeral

trant

1. thirty

Middle English

Alternative forms

• trante, traunt

Etymology

From Middle Dutch trant, from tranten (“to walk”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trant/

Noun

trant (plural trantes) (Late Middle English)

1. A stratagem, trick or trant; an act of cleverness.
2. Cleverness, trickiness; a tendency to be tricky.

Descendants

• English: trant
• ? Scots: tranty

References

• “trant(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-18.

Old Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tr?t?.

Noun

trant

1. drone (male bee)

References

Westrobothnian

Noun

trant

1. little boy

Synonyms

• gwadd
• mobb
• wåbb
• wabb

Verb

trant

1. run, walk a little (of children)