# hant
## English
### Etymology 1

See haunt.

#### Noun

hant (plural hants)
* (Scotland, US, colloquial, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Alternative form of haunt, haint (“ghost”)
** 1907, Harold Bell Wright, chapter I, in The Shepherd of the Hills, New York: A.L. Burt, page 20:“ […] Say, Mister, did you ever see a hant?” The gentleman did not understand. “A hant, a ghost, some calls ’em,” explained Jed.
** 1934, Cecile Hulse Matschat, chapter 3, in Suwannee River: Strange Green Land‎, New York: The Literary Guild of America, page 52:[…] he shivered as though a hant had touched him with its ghostly fingers, for night was near and he was alone in a depth of the swamp where he had never been before.
** 1967, Richard M. Dorson, “Spirits and Hants”, in American Negro Folktales, Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett, page 213:The term “hant” covers all malevolent and inexplicable sights and sounds. Primarily hants protect buried treasure and linger about ghoulish death spots.
** 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 22, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‎, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 140:Naturally, I believed in hants and ghosts and “thangs.” Having been raised by a super-religious Southern Negro grandmother, it would have been abnormal had I not been superstitious.

### Etymology 2
#### Contraction

hant
* Pronunciation spelling of hadn’t.

### Anagrams

* tahn, Hnat, Than, Nath, NAHT, -anth, than, anth.

## Cimbrian
### Etymology

From Middle High German hant, from Old High German hant. Cognate with German Hand, English hand.

### Noun

hant f (plural hénte, diminutive héntle)
* (Sette Comuni) hand
    An hant bèsset d'àndar.One hand washes the other.

#### Derived terms

* drukhan de hénte
* hantafa ?
* hantfala

### References

* “hant” 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

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Probably a derivation, but the root word is disputed:
* From Proto-Ugric *kᴕmɜ (“clump in a marsh”) + -t (noun-forming suffix).
* Split from han (“marsh, swamp”) (a variant of hany (“marsh, swamp”)) + -t (noun-forming suffix).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈhɒnt]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒnt

### Noun

hant (plural hantok)
* clod (lump of earth) [from c. 1395]
    Synonyms: földdarab, rög
* (poetic, rare) grass, lawn [from 1784]
    Synonyms: fű, gyep
* (poetic) grave (place of burial) [from 1788]
    Synonym: sírhant
* (poetic) mound, hillock (a small grass-covered mound of earth) [from c. 1600]
    Synonyms: földkupac, földhányás

#### Derived terms

* hantol → elhantol
* hantos
* hantmadár
* sírhant

### References

* ↑ hant in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
* ↑ Entry #1785 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

### Further reading

* hant 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 hant.

### Noun

hant f
* hand
* person
* side

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

#### Descendants

* Dutch: hand
* Limburgish: handj
* Zealandic: and

#### Further reading

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

## Middle High German
### Etymology

Inherited from Old High German hant, from Proto-West Germanic *handu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (before 13th CE) /ˈhant/

### Noun

hant f
* hand

#### Descendants

* Bavarian: Hånd
    Cimbrian: hant
    Mòcheno: hònt
* German: Hand
* Hunsrik: Hand
* Luxembourgish: Hand
* Vilamovian: haond
* Yiddish: האַנט (hant)

## Old Dutch
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *handu.

### Noun

hant f
* hand

#### Alternative forms

* ande (in compounds)

#### Descendants

* Middle Dutch: hant
** Dutch: hand
** Limburgish: handj
** Zealandic: and

#### Further reading

* “hant”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

## Old High German
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *handu, whence also Old English hand, Old Norse hǫnd, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃 (handus).

### Noun

hant f
* hand

#### Declension

| | singular | plural |
| nominative | hant | hanti |
| accusative | hant | hanti |
| genitive | hanti | hanto, hanteo, hantio |
| dative | hanti | hantum, hantun, hanton |
| instrumental | hanti | hantum, hantun, hanton |

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: hant
** Bavarian: Hånd
    Cimbrian: hant
    Mòcheno: hònt
** German: Hand
** Hunsrik: Hand
** Luxembourgish: Hand
** Vilamovian: haond
** Yiddish: האַנט (hant)

#### References

* Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014