trant
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɹænt/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ænt
Etymology 1
From Middle English tranten, from or cognate with Middle Dutch tranten (“to step, walk”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *trent-, *trant- (“to walk”). Cognate with West Frisian trantsje (“to step, step time; dance, jump”). Compare also Dutch drentelen (“to saunter”).
Verb
trant (third-person singular simple present trants, present participle tranting, simple past and past participle tranted)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle English trant, from Middle Dutch trant (“a step”), from tranten (“to walk”). Cognate with Dutch trant (“style, manner fashion, mode”), Swedish trant (“a step”).
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch trant (“a step”), from tranten (“to walk”).
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Derived terms
- in de trant van
Haitian Creole
Middle English
Etymology
From Middle Dutch trant, from tranten (“to walk”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /trant/
Noun
trant (plural trantes) (Late Middle English)
References
- “trant(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-18.
Old Polish
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *trǫtъ.[1]