hant

See haunt.

hant (plural hants)

1. (US, colloquial, chiefly African American Vernacular) A ghost; a supernatural being.
   • 1907, Harold Bell Wright, New York: A.L. Burt, The Shepherd of the Hills, Chapter I, p. 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, Suwannee River: Strange Green Land, New York: The Literary Guild of America, Chapter Three, p. 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, American Negro Folktales, Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett, “Spirits and Hants,” p. 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, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 22, p. 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.

hant

1. Eye dialect spelling of hadn’t.

• -anth, Nath, Than, than

From Middle High German hant, from Old High German hant, from Proto-Germanic *handuz (“hand”). Cognate with German Hand, Dutch hand, English hand, Icelandic hönd.

hant f (plural hénte)

1. (Sette Comuni, anatomy) hand

• “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

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒnt]

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hant (plural hantok)

1. clod (lump of earth)
2. grave (place of burial)

• hantol

From Old Dutch hant, from Proto-Germanic *handuz.

hant f

1. hand
2. person
3. side

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: hand
• Limburgish: handj

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

From Proto-Germanic *handuz.

hant f

1. hand

• ande (in compounds)

• Middle Dutch: hant
  • Dutch: hand
  • Limburgish: handj

• “hant”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-Germanic *handuz, whence also Old English hand, Old Norse hǫnd, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃 (handus).

hant f

1. (anatomy) hand

• Middle High German: hant
  • Cimbrian: hant
  • German: Hand
  • Luxembourgish: Hand
  • Mòcheno: hònt
  • Vilamovian: haond
  • Yiddish: האַנט‎ (hant)

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