lant

See also: LANT, lånt, and lanț

English

Etymology 1

Alteration of earlier land (“urine”), from Middle English land (“urine”), from Old English hland (“urine”), from Proto-Germanic *hlandą (“urine”), from Proto-Indo-European *klān- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Icelandic hland (“urine”), Norwegian land (“urine”).

Noun

lant (uncountable)

  1. Aged urine.

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.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

lant (uncountable)

  1. (Britain, dialect, Northern England) Obsolete form of lanterloo. (the card game)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Etymology 3

Compare lance.

Noun

lant (plural lants)

  1. Any of several species of slender marine fishes of the genus Ammodytes. The common European species (Ammodytes tobianus) and the American species (Ammodytes americanus) live on sandy shores, buried in the sand, and are caught in large quantities for bait.
Synonyms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɑ̃/
  • Audio (FR)(file)

Noun

lant m (plural lants)

  1. (zoology) zebu (Bos taurus indicus)

Synonyms

Further reading

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-ʿūd, “wood, lute”) (literally, "the wood").[1]

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lant (plural lantok)

  1. (music) lute

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
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

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • lantos

(Compound words):

References

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch lant, from Proto-Germanic *landą.

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

Further reading

  • “lant”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “lant”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Middle High German

Etymology

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

Noun

lant n

  1. land
  2. country

Descendants

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ-. Compare Old Saxon land, Old Frisian land, lond, Old Dutch lant, Old English land, lond, Old Norse land, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 (land).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lant/

Noun

lant n

  1. land
  2. country

Declension

Descendants

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