trant

== English == === Alternative forms === traunt === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tɹænt/ 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) (intransitive) To walk; go about. (intransitive) To traffic in an itinerant manner; to peddle. (intransitive) To turn; play a trick. ===== Derived terms ===== tranter === 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”). ==== Noun ==== trant (plural trants) A turn; trick; stratagem. ===== Derived terms ===== tranty == Dutch == === Etymology === From Middle Dutch trant (“a step”), from tranten (“to walk”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /trɑnt/ Hyphenation: trant Rhymes: -ɑnt === Noun === trant m (uncountable, no diminutive) manner ==== Derived terms ==== in de trant van verhaaltrant verteltrant == Haitian Creole == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tɣãt/ === Numeral === trant thirty == Middle English == === Alternative forms === trante, traunt === Etymology === From Middle Dutch trant, from tranten (“to walk”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /trant/ === Noun === trant (plural trantes) (Late Middle English) A stratagem, trick or trant; an act of cleverness. Cleverness, trickiness; a tendency to be tricky. ==== Descendants ==== English: trant ⇒ Scots: tranty ==== References ==== “trant(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 September 2018.