hantus
Sudovian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle High German hant, cf. German Hand (“hand”), supplanting native Proto-Balto-Slavic *ránkāˀ (“hand, arm”).[1]
Noun
[edit]hantuſ
- (anatomy) hand, (possibly also) arm
- “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 8, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):
References
[edit]- ^ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, , page 73: “hantuſ ‘ranka, l. ręka’ 8.”