# haint
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /heɪnt/
* Rhymes: -eɪnt

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

haint (third-person singular simple present haints, present participle hainting, simple past and past participle hainted)
* (US, dialectal) Alternative form of haunt
** 1988, Randy Russell, Janet Barnett, “Dead Dan's Shadow on the Wall”, in Mountain Ghost Stories and Curious Tales of Western North Carolina, page 5:Looking from juror to juror and seeking out the smug faces of the witnesses who'd testified against him, he repeated his threat. "Those who say I kilt anybody are liars," he proclaimed. "And each of you will be hainted every day for the rest of your life. Then the devil will have ye."
** 2003, Winson Hudson, Derrick Bell, Constance Curry, Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter, page 17:After he killed him, Ed came back and he didn't have no head and he hainted [haunted] Ole Master until he died himself — getting in his way all the time — Ole Ed would be right there with him.
** 2003, W. Bruce Wingo, There Grows a Crooked Tree‎, page 92:“I just don't think it happened that way,” he argued. “Otherwise, the ghost wouldn't still be hainting the tree.”

#### Noun

haint (plural haints)
* (US, dialectal) A ghost; a supernatural being; Alternative form of haunt.
** 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC, part 2, page 254:"Ain't you scared of haints?"
** 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, page 18:I got a tree on my back and a haint in my house, and nothing in between but the daughter I am holding in my arms.
** 2005, Eulie Rowan, “The Four-Legged Haint”, in The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs, Simon and Schuster, page 106:It didn't take long for word to spread that there was a "haint" in the graveyard. A haint is what the old-timers called a ghost.
** 2009, Mary Monroe, God Still Don't Like Ugly‎, page 211:My dead grandpa's haint floated above my bed one night when I was a young'un and scared me so bad I busted the bedroom door down tryin' to get out that room so fast.

##### Derived terms

* haint blue

##### Related terms

* ha'nt, hant, harnt

### Etymology 2
#### Contraction

haint
* (dialectal) Alternative form of ain't

### Anagrams

* hatin', ahint, Ihnat, Thain, Intha, IHNTA

## Cimbrian
### Alternative forms

* hoint (Luserna)

### Etymology

From Middle High German *heinaht, from Old High German hīnaht (“tonight”), from hī (“this”, from Proto-Germanic *hiz) + naht (“night”). Cognate with obsolete German heint, heinacht (“tonight”), Bavarian heint (“today”).

### Adverb

haint
* (Sette Comuni) this evening

#### Derived terms

* haintenacht (“tonight”)

#### Related terms

* hôar

### References

* “haint” 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

## Irish
### Noun

haint f sg
* h-prothesized form of aint

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hai̯nt/

### Noun

haint f (plural heintiau, not mutable)
* infection, disease
    Synonym: clefyd
* plague, pestilence
    Synonyms: pla, bad

#### Derived terms

* gwrth-haint
* heintio
* heintrydd
* heintus

### Further reading

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “haint”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies