Etymology

midden-pant

Today it means: hollow into which the drainage of the manure-heap flowed Full definition →

Cumbric pant
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The story

  1. Cumbric · derived frompant“hollow, depression”
  2. English todaymidden-pant

From midden (“dung heap”) (itself from Old Norse) + possibly Cumbric pant (“hollow, depression”).

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.