lant

• IPA^(key): /lænt/, /lɑːnt/

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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”).

lant (uncountable)

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

   Synonym: sig

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.

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?

Compare lance.

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).

• launce
• sand eel
• sand lance

• “lant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Nat'l, natl.

• lånt (Luserna)

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.

lant n (plural lèntar) (Sette Comuni)

1. land
2. country, nation

• “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

• IPA^(key): /lɑ̃/

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lant m (plural lants)

1. (zoology) zebu (Bos taurus indicus)

   Synonym: zébu

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

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-ʕūd, “wood, lute”, literally “the wood”).[1]

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

lant (plural lantok)

1. (music) lute

   Synonyms: koboz, líra

• lant in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Old Dutch lant.

lant n

1. (dry) land
2. (piece of) land
3. country, region
4. ground, earth

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: land
  • Afrikaans: land
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: alanda, landi
  • Negerhollands: land, lant, lan
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: land, lantta
  • → Sranan Tongo: lanti (see there for further descendants)
• Limburgish: landj
• Zealandic: land

• “lant”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “lant”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

From Old High German lant.

lant n

1. land
2. country

• Alemannic German: Land, Lånd

  Swabian: Lahnd

• Bavarian: Lånd

  Cimbrian: lant, lånt

• Central Franconian: Land, Lannt

  Hunsrik: Land

  Luxembourgish: Land

• German: Land (see there for further descendants)
• Rhine Franconian:

  Palatine German: Lond

  Pennsylvania German: Land, Lond

• Vilamovian: łaond
• Yiddish: לאַנד (land)

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “lant”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke‎, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

From Proto-West Germanic *land.

lant n

1. land (as opposed to water)
2. land, terrain
3. territory

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Middle Dutch: lant
  • Dutch: land
    • Afrikaans: land
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: alanda, landi
    • Negerhollands: land, lant, lan
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: land, lantta
    • → Sranan Tongo: lanti (see there for further descendants)
  • Limburgish: landj
  • Zealandic: land

• “lant”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-West Germanic *land.

Compare Old Saxon land, Old Frisian land, lond, Old Dutch lant, Old English land, lond, Old Norse land, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 (land).

• IPA^(key): /lant/

lant n

1. land
2. country

• Middle High German: lant
  • Alemannic German: Land, Lånd

    Swabian: Lahnd

  • Bavarian: Lånd

    Cimbrian: lant, lånt

  • Central Franconian: Land, Lannt

    Hunsrik: Land

    Luxembourgish: Land

  • German: Land (see there for further descendants)
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Palatine German: Lond

    Pennsylvania German: Land, Lond

  • Vilamovian: łaond
  • Yiddish: לאַנד (land)