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35,981 English word records · 45,491 etymology sections in this online subset
PARTIAL ENGLISH COVERAGE · FULL CORPUS REMAINS LOCAL3 source sections across 2 headwords matching “Quant”. These are separate from the reviewed results below.
QuantEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Nickname from Middle English cwointe (“intelligent, smart, cunning”), the origin of quaint.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗quantEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Shortening.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗quantEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Uncertain. A borrowing from Latin contus (“long pole”) has been suggested, but the -a- is problematic.
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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
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HISTORICAL FORMS
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CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 4
openprobableposition text
Can the exact pronunciation and path into fjá be recovered?
Not completely. Vowel quantity, optional glide, contraction, surface variation, and poetic normalization belong to historical analysis rather than recorded audio.
openprobableposition text
Can the exact Proto-Germanic pronunciation and path into fīēn be recovered?
Not completely. Optional j, vowel quantity, stem remodeling, and daughter inflection belong to comparative analysis rather than a recorded transition.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Are hatian “hate” and hátian “become hot” one word?
No. Bosworth–Toller lists separate headwords with different vowel quantity, meanings, examples, and Germanic comparisons. Modern typography that drops macrons can hide the distinction.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Can the exact Old High German pronunciation be recovered from the citation forms?
Not from the reviewed records alone. Quantity marks and consonant spellings encode scholarly analyses, but no audio exists and the dossier does not infer one dialect-neutral phonetic realization.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 0
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SOURCES
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