gaunt

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• Received-Pronunciation: gônt
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɡɔːnt/
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• archaic, Received-Pronunciation: /ɡɑːnt/
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• General-American: gônt
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• General-American: /ɡɔnt/
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• cot-caught-merger: gänt
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• cot-caught-merger: /ɡɑnt/
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• rhymes with -ɔːnt
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• CMU ARPABET: G AO1 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English gaunt, gawnt, gawnte, gant (“lean, slender, thin, gaunt”); further etymology uncertain. Speculated origins include: * from a North Germanic/Scandinavian source related to Old Norse gandr (“magic staff; stick”) (the ancestor of Icelandic gandur (“magic staff”) and Norwegian gand (“thin, pointed stick; tall, thin man”)), from Proto-Germanic *gandaz (“stick; staff”). Other suggested Germanic cognates include Swedish gank (“(dialectal) lean, emaciated horse”); Danish gand, gan, Norwegian gana (“cut-off tree limbs”); Bavarian Gunten (“kind of peg or wedge”). These words have all been connected to *gunþiz (“battle”) or its ultimate source, but this comparison presents semantic and phonetic difficulties. * from Old French: ** The NED/OED (1900) suggests it could be a "graphic adoption" of Old French gant, a variant spelling of gent (“elegant; nice, pleasant; noble”) modern French gent), from Latin gēns (“clan, tribe; country, nation; family; people”), from Proto-Italic *gentis, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh1tis, from the root *ǵenh1- (“to produce, to beget, to give birth”). (It could not be an oral borrowing since the Old French word started with [dʒ], not [ɡ], due to the palatalization of Latin "ge"; compare jaunty from French gentil.) If this etymology is correct, the early, now-obsolete positive or neutral sense 4.1 ("slender") was apparently original. ** Spitzer 1944 argues it is more likely to be from the Norman version of Old French jau(l)net (“yellowish”), diminutive of jaune (“yellow”), from Latin galbinus (the palatalization of Latin "ga" did not occur in northern French dialects).

English surname, variant of Gant.

95 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: костелив (kosteliv) — angular, bony, and lean
• Bulgarian: мършав (mǎršav) — angular, bony, and lean
• Chinese Mandarin: 瘦削 (shòuxuē) — angular, bony, and lean
• Czech: hubený — angular, bony, and lean
• Danish: mager — angular, bony, and lean
• Danish: tynd — angular, bony, and lean
• Dutch: mager — angular, bony, and lean
• Finnish: luiseva — angular, bony, and lean
• French: anguleux — angular, bony, and lean
• French: maigre — angular, bony, and lean
• French: osseux — angular, bony, and lean
• Georgian: გამხდარი (gamxdari) — angular, bony, and lean
• Georgian: მჭლე (mč̣le) — angular, bony, and lean
• German: dünn — angular, bony, and lean
• German: hager — angular, bony, and lean
• German: knochig — angular, bony, and lean
• German: mager — angular, bony, and lean
• Italian: allampanato — angular, bony, and lean
• Italian: emaciato — angular, bony, and lean
• Italian: macilento — angular, bony, and lean
• Italian: ossuto — angular, bony, and lean
• Italian: scheletrico — angular, bony, and lean
• Italian: smagrito — angular, bony, and lean
• Japanese: げっそりやせた (gessoriyaseta) — angular, bony, and lean
• Latin: macer — angular, bony, and lean
• Macedonian: ковчест (kovčest) — angular, bony, and lean
• Plautdietsch: denn — angular, bony, and lean
• Polish: szczupły — angular, bony, and lean
• Romanian: ciolănos — angular, bony, and lean
• Romanian: jigărit — angular, bony, and lean
• Romanian: sfrijit — angular, bony, and lean
• Russian: костля́вый (kostljávyj) — angular, bony, and lean
• Russian: сухопа́рый (suxopáryj) — angular, bony, and lean
• Russian: то́щий (tóščij) — angular, bony, and lean
• Russian: худо́й (xudój) — angular, bony, and lean
• Serbo-Croatian: испѝјен — angular, bony, and lean
• Serbo-Croatian: ко̀шчат — angular, bony, and lean
• Serbo-Croatian: сухо̀њав — angular, bony, and lean
• Serbo-Croatian: ispìjen — angular, bony, and lean
• Serbo-Croatian: koščat — angular, bony, and lean
• Serbo-Croatian: suhònjav — angular, bony, and lean
• Ottoman Turkish: ضعیف (zaʼif) — angular, bony, and lean
• Welsh: achul — angular, bony, and lean
• Bulgarian: измъчен (izmǎčen) — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Bulgarian: изтощен (iztošten) — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Czech: kost a kůže — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Czech: vyzáblý — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Czech: vychrtlý — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Finnish: luiseva — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• French: émacié — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Georgian: გასავათებული (gasavatebuli) — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Georgian: ღონემიხდილი (ɣonemixdili) — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Georgian: ძალღონე გამოლეული (ʒalɣone gamoleuli) — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• German: abgemagert — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• German: ausgemergelt — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Māori: pāhehaheha — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Māori: pakoko — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Māori: pāohe — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Polish: wymizerowany — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Russian: исхуда́лый (isxudályj) — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Russian: исхуда́вший (isxudávšij) — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Spanish: chupado — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Spanish: demacrado — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Spanish: macilento — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Spanish: enjuto — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Spanish: raquítico — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Spanish: flaquítico — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Spanish: hético — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Spanish: esqueletado — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Spanish: entrénsico — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Spanish: esmirriado — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Ottoman Turkish: ضعیف (zaʼif) — unhealthily thin, as from hunger or illness — see also drawn, emaciated, haggard
• Bulgarian: мрачен (mračen) — of a place or thing: bleak, desolate — see also bleak, desolate
• Bulgarian: запуснат (zapusnat) — of a place or thing: bleak, desolate — see also bleak, desolate
• Czech: bezútěšný — of a place or thing: bleak, desolate — see also bleak, desolate
• Czech: nehostinný — of a place or thing: bleak, desolate — see also bleak, desolate
• Czech: neutěšený — of a place or thing: bleak, desolate — see also bleak, desolate
• Czech: pochmurný — of a place or thing: bleak, desolate — see also bleak, desolate
• Czech: pustý — of a place or thing: bleak, desolate — see also bleak, desolate
• Danish: øde — of a place or thing: bleak, desolate — see also bleak, desolate
• Finnish: jylhä — of a place or thing: bleak, desolate — see also bleak, desolate
• Finnish: karu — of a place or thing: bleak, desolate — see also bleak, desolate
• Georgian: ბნელი (bneli) — of a place or thing: bleak, desolate — see also bleak, desolate
• Georgian: უდაბური (udaburi) — of a place or thing: bleak, desolate — see also bleak, desolate
• Georgian: უკაცრიელი (uḳacrieli) — of a place or thing: bleak, desolate — see also bleak, desolate
• German: kahl — of a place or thing: bleak, desolate — see also bleak, desolate
• German: karg — of a place or thing: bleak, desolate — see also bleak, desolate
• German: nackt — of a place or thing: bleak, desolate — see also bleak, desolate
• German: öde — of a place or thing: bleak, desolate — see also bleak, desolate
• German: trostlos — of a place or thing: bleak, desolate — see also bleak, desolate
• German: verlassen — of a place or thing: bleak, desolate — see also bleak, desolate
• Japanese: 荒涼とした (kōryōtoshita) — of a place or thing: bleak, desolate — see also bleak, desolate
• Korean: 황량한 (hwangnyanghan) — of a place or thing: bleak, desolate — see also bleak, desolate
• Korean: 황폐 한 (hwangpye han) — of a place or thing: bleak, desolate — see also bleak, desolate
• Spanish: demacrado — of a place or thing: bleak, desolate — see also bleak, desolate