vaunt
English
/vɔːnt/, /vɑːnt/, /vɔnt/, /vɑnt/
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) To speak boastfully.
- (transitive) To speak boastfully about.
- (transitive) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
Etymology
Borrowed from vaunter derived from Old French vanter derived from Latin vānus (empty, boastful, vain) root from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (empty, be lacking, be empty, abandon, leave, wasted, lack, deserted).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₁weh₂-
Gloss
empty, be lacking, be empty, abandon, leave, wasted, lack, deserted
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- devastate English
- evanesce English
- outvaunt English
- vaunter English
- vauntery English
- vauntest English
- vaunteth English
- vauntful English
- *exvānĕre Latin
- evanescere Latin
- evanesco, evanescere Latin
- vacans Latin
- vacantia Latin
- vacuitās Latin
- vacuus Latin
- vacātus Latin
- vanesco Latin
- vaniloquium Latin
- vaniloquus Latin
- vanitas Latin
- vanus Latin
- vastus Latin
- vocitus Latin
- vānitas Latin
- vānitāre Latin
- vānus Latin
- ēvānēscēns Latin
- vano Italian
- vanter French
- vano Spanish, Castilian
- *h₁uh₂nós Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁weh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂weh₁yu- Proto-Indo-European
- devanear Portuguese
- *wanatōną Proto-Germanic
- *wanaz Proto-Germanic
- *wanōną Proto-Germanic
- *wōstinī Proto-Germanic
- wēstiġ Old English
- vanbúinn Old Norse
- avanter Old French
- vain Old French
- vanteor Old French
- vanter Old French
- vana Esperanto
- va Catalan, Valencian
- van Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- fás Old Irish
- vão Old Portuguese
- vãnãt Aromanian
- *wakos Proto-Italic
- *wōstī Frankish
- vaunter xno