coont

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“I compute”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kunt/

Verb

coont (third-person singular simple present coonts, present participle coontin, simple past coontt, past participle coontt)

1. to count, to do arithmetic
2. to settle (accounts) [with to or with ‘to have a yearly settlement with the landlord’]

Noun

coont (plural coonts)

1. a sum in arithmetic
2. account

Derived terms

adjectives

• coontless

 

nouns

• coonter
• coonter-lowper
• coontin
• count-book
• discoont

 

verbs

• recoont
• to keep coonts

 

References

• “coont”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
• Eagle, Andy, editor (2024), “coont”, in The Online Scots Dictionary‎^[1]