sannt

German

Pronunciation

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

Verb

sannt

second-person plural preterite of sinnen

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish sant, of uncertain origin; cognate with Manx saynt and Irish saint. Possibly borrowed from Proto-Brythonic *hwant (the source of Welsh chwant (“desire”)),^[1] from Proto-Celtic *swantos, provided the borrowing happened before *s became *h in Brythonic but after *ant became *ēdd in Goidelic, as the inherited Old Irish descendant of *swantos is sét (whence seud (“jewel”)). Against this hypothesis is the fact that Old Irish sét and Welsh chwant are masculine, while Old Irish sant and its descendants are feminine.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /s̪ãũn̪ˠt̪/

Noun

sannt m (genitive singular sannta or sainnt)

avarice, greed, covetousness, ambition, desire

Derived terms

sanntach

Mutation

Mutation of *sannt*
radical	lenition
sannt	shannt after "an", t-sannt

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sant”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Swedish

Adjective

sannt

Obsolete spelling of sant.

[1] Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sant”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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