rynt
English
Alternative forms
- roynt, runt
Etymology
Likely from a corruption of "rowan tree", a phrase which would have been chanted in order to drive off witches, since the tree was believed to be a ward against evil. [1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹaɪnt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -aɪnt
Verb
rynt (no third-person singular simple present, no present participle, no simple past or past participle)
See also
- aroint
- runte
- arunt
References
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “rynt”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
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