muntとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Probably derived from Northern Ndebele umuntu, with stress on the first syllable, which is uncommon for Nguni languages. From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀ntʊ̀ (“person”).

名詞

munt (plural munts)

1. (Rhodesia, slang, originally military, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A black person, usually a man.
   • 1964 [1957], Colin MacInnes, City of Spades, London: Penguin Books, page 22:

     My Dad has taught me that in England some foolish man may call me sambo, darkie, boot or munt or nigger, even.

   • 2006, Geoffrey Nyarota, Against the Grain: Memoirs of a Zimbabwean Newsman, Zebra Press, page 63:

     Munt was a derogatory term used by the [Rhodesian] security forces to refer to blacks.

語源 2

Related to munted; see there for more.

動詞

munt (third-person singular simple present munts, present participle munting, simple past and past participle munted)

1. (Australia, slang) To vomit (usually while drunk).
2. (slang) To engage in the act of munting.

語源 3

Blend of man +‎ cunt.

名詞

munt (plural munts)

1. (slang) mangina

名詞

munt (plural munts)

1. (New Zealand, slang, used by schoolchildren) Something or someone dumb or annoying.

発音

• IPA: /munt/

名詞

munt m

1. a hill, mound
2. a mount or mountain
   • Old English Heptateuch, Genesis 19:30

     Loth þā ne dorste lenġ wunian on Segor ac ferde mid hys twām dohtrum afirht tō þām munte, and þār on ānum sċræfe ealle þrēo wunedon

     Frightened, Lot dared not stay in Zoar, but went with his two daughters to the mountain, and there all three of them lived in a cave.

   • "Gospel of Saint Luke", chapter 4, verse 29

     And hiġ ārīson and scūfon hine of ðǣre ceastre. And lǣddon hine ofer ðæs muntes cnæpp. Ofer þone hyra buruh ġetimbrud wæs. þ hī hyne nyðer bescūfon.

     And they arose and shoved him from the city. And led him over the mount's top. Over that their city was built. That they thrusted him downward.

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

派生語

• foremunt
• muntælfen
• muntclȳse
• muntġēof
• muntland

派生した語

• Middle English: mount, mont, mounte, mownt, munt
  • English: mount
  • Scots: munt

名詞

munt

1. alternative form of mount

語源 2

動詞

munt

1. alternative form of mounten

語源 3

名詞

munt

1. alternative form of mynt (“strike”)