vanta

From French vantard.

vanta

1. braggart; boaster

vanta

1. only used in es vanta, third-person singular present indicative of vantar-se
2. only used in vanta't, second-person singular imperative of vantar-se

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• IPA^(key): /ˈvanta/
• Rhymes: -anta
• Hyphenation: van‧ta

vanta (accusative singular vantan, plural vantaj, accusative plural vantajn)

1. frivolous
2. conceited, vain

• vana

Inherited from Old Norse vanta.

• Homophones: vantað, vænta, væntað

vanta (third person singular past indicative vantaði, third person plural past indicative vantað, supine vantað)

1. to lack
2. to want, need (be without, fall short)

   mær vantar

   I need

vanta

1. third-person singular past historic of vanter

• avant

From Old Norse vanta.

vanta

1. (impersonal) to lack (usually translates "to need" or "to miss")

   Mig vantar einhvern að kenna mér.

   I need someone to teach me.

2. to want (be without, fall short)

• mig vantar

• vatna

vanta

1. inflection of vantare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• vante

From Old Norse vanta, from Proto-Germanic *wanatōną.

• IPA^(key): /²ʋɑn.tɑ/

vanta (present tense vantar, past tense vanta, past participle vanta, passive infinitive vantast, present participle vantande, imperative vanta/vant)

1. to lack
2. be wrong with; have an issue

• (lack): sakna, mangla
• (have an issue): feila

• “vanta” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *wanatōną.

vanta

1. (impersonal) to cause to lack [with accusative ‘something’] (idiomatically translated as "lack, be lacking" with the accusative object as the subject)

   vantar vatni ― there is a lack of water

• Icelandic: vanta
• Faroese: vanta
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vanta, vante
• Norwegian Bokmål: vante
• Old Swedish: vanta
• Old Danish: vante
  • Danish: vante
• → Middle English: wanten
  • English: want
  • Scots: want, wint, wunt
  • Yola: waant

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “vanta”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 471; also available at the Internet Archive

From Old Norse vanta, from Proto-Germanic *wanatōną.

vanta

1. to be lacking

From German Wand.

vanta

1. wall

• “vanta” in Norwegian Romani Dictionary.
• “vanta” in Tavringens Rakripa: Romanifolkets Ordbok, Landsorganisasjonen for Romanifolket.