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)
- (archaic, reflexive) stand off; move away (said by milkmaids to their cows after milking them)
- Rynt thee.
See also
- aroint
- runte
- arunt
References
- “Aroint thee”, in Out of Shakespeare, 2013
- “rynt”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.