# lant
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lænt/, /lɑːnt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

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

##### Translations
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

lant (uncountable)
* (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)
* 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).

##### Synonyms

* launce
* sand eel
* sand lance

### References

* “lant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### 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 *landą. Cognate with German Land, English land.

### Noun

lant n (plural lèntar) (Sette Comuni)
* land
* 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: /lɑ̃/
* Audio (France):(file)

### Noun

lant m (plural lants)
* (zoology) zebu (Bos taurus indicus)
    Synonym: zébu

### Further reading

* “lant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## 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 اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, “wood, lute”, literally “the wood”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɒnt]
* Hyphenation: lant

### Noun

lant (plural lantok)
* (music) lute
    Synonyms: koboz, líra

#### Derived terms

* lantos
* forgólant
* tekerőlant
* leteszi a lantot

### References

* ↑ 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
* (dry) land
* (piece of) land
* country, region
* 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

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

## Middle High German
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (before 13th CE) /ˈlant/

### Noun

lant n
* land
    schœniu lant, rîch unde hêre ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
* country

#### Descendants

* Alemannic German: Land, Lånd
    Swabian: Lahnd
* Bavarian: Lånd
    Cimbrian: lant, lånt (Luserna)
* Central Franconian: Land, Lannt
    Hunsrik: Land
    Luxembourgish: Land
* German: Land (see there for further descendants)
* Rhine Franconian:
    Palatine German: Lond
    Pennsylvania German: Land, Lond
* Vilamovian: łaond
* Yiddish: לאַנד (land)

### 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
* land (as opposed to water)
* land, terrain
* territory

#### Descendants

* Middle Dutch: lant
** 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

* “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

* IPA: /lant/

### Noun

lant n
* land
* country

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: lant
** Alemannic German: Land, Lånd
    Swabian: Lahnd
** Bavarian: Lånd
    Cimbrian: lant, lånt (Luserna)
** Central Franconian: Land, Lannt
    Hunsrik: Land
    Luxembourgish: Land
** German: Land (see there for further descendants)
** Rhine Franconian:
    Palatine German: Lond
    Pennsylvania German: Land, Lond
** Vilamovian: łaond
** Yiddish: לאַנד (land)