sannt

German

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /zant/
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  • Rhymes: -ant
  • Homophone: Sand

Verb

sannt

  1. second-person plural preterite of sinnen

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish sant, of unknown origin; cognate with Irish saint. DIL connects it with Welsh chwant (“desire”),[1] but the Old Irish cognate of that word is actually sét (“treasure”). The ant sequence suggests a late loanword into Goidelic.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /s̪ãũn̪ˠt̪/

Noun

sannt m (genitive singular sannta or sainnt)

  1. avarice, greed, covetousness, ambition, desire

Derived terms

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
sanntshannt
after "an", t-sannt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “sant”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Swedish

Adjective

sannt

  1. Obsolete spelling of sant
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