dunt

Meaning

Noun

A stroke; a dull-sounding blow.

Verb

To strike; give a blow to; knock.

Contraction

Pronunciation spelling of don't.

Translations

colpo

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: dunt

Inherited from Old English: dynt

Cognate with Swedish: -

In summary

From Middle English dunt, dynt, from Old English dynt (“dint, blow, strike, stroke, bruise, stripe, thud, the mark or noise of a blow, a bruise, noise, crash”), from Proto-West Germanic *dunti, from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“shock, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to beat, push”). Cognate with Swedish dialectal dunt (“stroke”). Doublet of dent and dint.