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gant

See also: Gant and gånt

Breton

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Breton cant, from Proto-Celtic *kanta (“together with”). Cognate with Welsh gan (“with; by”).

Preposition

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gant

  1. with
Inflection
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  Personal forms of gant  
singular plural
1 ganimp 1 ganimp,
ganeomp
2 ganit 2 ganeoc'h
3 m gantañ 3 ganto
3 f ganti
imp. ganeor

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Numeral

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gant

  1. Soft mutation of kant.

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French guant, from Frankish *want (compare Middle Dutch want, Old High German wantus), from Proto-Germanic *wantuz (“glove”). Cognate with Italian guanto, Spanish guante, and Catalan guant.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡɑ̃/
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Noun

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gant m (plural gants)

  1. glove

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • → Greek: γάντι (gánti)

Further reading

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Manx

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Etymology

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From English gander. Compare Old Irish ganndal m (“gander”) (modern gandal).

Noun

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gant m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. common tern
  2. gannet, solan goose

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gant ghant ngant
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Norman

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Etymology

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From Old French guant, from Frankish *want, from Proto-Germanic *wantuz (“glove”).

Noun

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gant m (plural gants)

  1. (Jersey) glove

Occitan

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Etymology

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From Old Occitan guant, from Frankish *want, from Proto-Germanic *wantuz (“glove”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gant m (plural gants)

  1. glove

Scots

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Etymology

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The verb is possibly derived from Middle English *ganten, from Old English *gānettan, a frequentative of gānian (“to gape, open, open wide; to yawn”)[1][2] (whence Middle English ganen, gane, gonen),[3][4] from Proto-West Germanic *gainōn (“to yawn”), from Proto-Germanic *gainōną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to gape; to yawn”).

The noun is derived from the verb.[5]

Verb

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gant (third-person singular simple present gants, present participle gantin, simple past gantt, past participle gantt) (intransitive)

  1. To open the mouth wide to breathe; to gasp.
  2. To yawn.
  3. (figurative)
    1. Of a thing: to open wide; to gape.
    2. To make exaggerated statements.
  4. (Caithness) To stammer, to stutter.

Alternative forms

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Noun

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gant (plural gants)

  1. A yawn.
  2. (Caithness) A stammer, a stutter.

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References

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  1. ^ “gant, gent, v., n.1”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
  2. ^ Compare “gant | gaunt, v.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2024.
  3. ^ “gōnen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  4. ^ “gane, v.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023.
  5. ^ Compare “gant | gaunt, n.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2024.

Welsh

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Noun

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gant

  1. Soft mutation of cant.

Mutation

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
cant gant nghant chant
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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