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See also: Lant, LANT, lånt, and lanț

English

Pronunciation

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 *hlandą (urine), from Proto-Indo-European *klān- (liquid, wet ground). Cognate with Icelandic hland (urine), Norwegian Nynorsk land (urine).

Noun

lant (uncountable)

  1. Aged urine, historically used by the Anglo-Saxons and others as fertilizer for high nitrogen content.
    Synonym: sig
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.
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Etymology 2

Noun

lant (uncountable)

  1. (UK, dialect, Northern England) Obsolete form of lanterloo. (the card game)
    • 1834, Sandford Tatham, Alexander Fraser, A Verbatim Report of the Cause Doe Dem. Tatham V. Wright:
      Did Mr. Ellershaw speak to Mr. Marsden, when he was playing at lant with you?

Etymology 3

Compare lance.

Noun

lant (plural lants)

  1. Any of several species of slender marine fishes of the genus Ammodytes, including the common European species (Ammodytes tobianus) and the American species (Ammodytes americanus).
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Cimbrian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle High German lant, from Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą. 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

Noun

lant m (plural lants)

  1. (zoology) zebu (Bos taurus indicus)
    Synonym: zébu

Further reading

Hungarian

Hungarian Wikipedia has an article on:
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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 اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, wood, lute, literally the wood).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɒnt]
  • Hyphenation: lant

Noun

lant (plural lantok)

  1. (music) lute
    Synonyms: koboz, líra

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative lant lantok
accusative lantot lantokat
dative lantnak lantoknak
instrumental lanttal lantokkal
causal-final lantért lantokért
translative lanttá lantokká
terminative lantig lantokig
essive-formal lantként lantokként
essive-modal
inessive lantban lantokban
superessive lanton lantokon
adessive lantnál lantoknál
illative lantba lantokba
sublative lantra lantokra
allative lanthoz lantokhoz
elative lantból lantokból
delative lantról lantokról
ablative lanttól lantoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
lanté lantoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
lantéi lantokéi
Possessive forms of lant
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. lantom lantjaim
2nd person sing. lantod lantjaid
3rd person sing. lantja lantjai
1st person plural lantunk lantjaink
2nd person plural lantotok lantjaitok
3rd person plural lantjuk lantjaik

Derived terms

Compound words
Expressions

References

  1. ^ lant in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

  • lant in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: alanda, landi
    • Negerhollands: land, lant, lan
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: land, lantta
    • Sranan Tongo: lanti (see there for further descendants)
    • >? Javanese: ꦭꦤ꧀ (lan)
  • Limburgish: landj
  • Zealandic: land

Further reading

Middle High German

Etymology

    Inherited from Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈlant/

    Noun

    lant n

    1. land
      schœniu lant, rîch unde hêre(please add an English translation of this usage example)
    2. country

    Declension

    Descendants

    References

    • Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “lant”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

    Old Dutch

    Etymology

    From Proto-West Germanic *land.

    Noun

    lant n

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

    Inflection

    Descendants

    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 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 (land).

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      lant n

      1. land
      2. country

      Declension

      Descendants