faunt

• fawnt
• fant (County Durham); faunth (Norfolk)

Apparently borrowed from Anglo-Norman faunt, an apheretic form of or a back-formation from enfaunt, from Latin īnfāns, īnfantem; thus a doublet of infaunt. First attested in c. 1325.

• IPA^(key): /fau̯nt/, /fant/

faunt (plural fauntes) (poetic)

1. A baby or infant (almost always of a human)
2. (rare) A son or daughter.

• “faunt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “faunt, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.