lant

See also: Lant, LANT, lånt, and lanț

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lænt/, /lɑːnt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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)

1. Aged urine, historically used by the Anglo-Saxons and others as fertilizer for high nitrogen content.

   Synonym: sig

Translations

aged urine

Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can

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

to flavor with lant

Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can

Etymology 2

Noun

lant (uncountable)

1. (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)

1. 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)

1. land
2. country, nation

Declension

Declension of lant – 3rd declension

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	an	's	lant	de	lèntar
accusative	an	's	lant	de	lèntar
dative	aname	me	lante	in	lèntarn

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

Dutch

Noun

lant n (plural landen, diminutive lantje n)

1. obsolete spelling of land

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɑ̃/

• Audio (France):

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Noun

lant m (plural lants)

1. (zoology) zebu (Bos taurus indicus)

   Synonym: zébu

Further reading

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