punt

• n.つり球を蹴る；ボートを平底にする；賭けをする
• vt.仕事を後回しにする；ボールを空中で蹴る
• vi.投げ出す；やめる；四角い平底のボートに乗る；賭けをする
• n. （パント）人の名前；（南アフリカ）パント。

古英語のpuntから、ラテン語のponto（平底の船）、pons（橋）、PIE*pent（歩く、道）、path（道）と語源は同じ、pontificalから。

アイルランド語のpunt、古英語のpund、poundから。

フランス語のponte（点）から、point（点）と語源が同じ。 もともとはカードポイントギャンブルゲームで使われた。

ボールを蹴る音を模倣した擬音語。

punt

punt: English has three separate words punt. The oldest is punt ‘flat-bottomed boat’ [15], which comes via Middle Low German punte or punto from Latin pontō, a term for a sort of Gaulish boat which also produced English pontoon. Punt ‘bet’ [18] (better known in the form of the agent noun punter ‘better’, hence ‘customer’) comes from French ponter, a derivative of ponte ‘bet against the banker in certain card games’.

This was adapted from Spanish punto ‘point’, a descendant of Latin punctum (source of English point). Punt ‘kick’ [19] may be a variant of bunt ‘push’ [19] (now used as a baseball term, meaning ‘hit the ball softly’); this could in turn be an alteration of butt, but it might also come from a Celtic source, related to Breton bounta ‘butt’.
=> pontoon; point, punctuation

punt (n.1)

"kick," 1845; see punt (v.).

punt (n.2)

"flat-bottomed river boat," late Old English punt, perhaps an ancient survival of British Latin ponto "flat-bottomed boat" (see OED), a kind of Gallic transport (Caesar), also "floating bridge" (Gellius), from Latin pontem (nominative pons) "bridge" (see pontoon). Or from or influenced by Old French cognate pont "large, flat boat."

punt (v.)

"to kick a ball dropped from the hands before it hits the ground," 1845, first in a Rugby list of football rules, perhaps from dialectal punt "to push, strike," alteration of Midlands dialect bunt "to push, butt with the head," of unknown origin, perhaps echoic. Student slang meaning "give up, drop a course so as not to fail," 1970s, is because a U.S. football team punts when it cannot advance the ball. Related: Punted; punting.

1. The investment is little more than a punt .

この投資はギャンブルに等しい。

2.The referee told him to punt or kick the ball off the ground.

審判はキックや定点キックができると言った。

3.He caught a punt and scored the winning touchdown，with a minute left to play.

彼は相手のドロップキックを受けて成功し、決勝点を獲得したが、この時の試合は最後の1分しか残っていなかった。

4.She soon learned to punt .

彼女はすぐに角打ち平底船を覚えた。

5.Never punt a gnome without due cause.

小人をむやみに蹴ってはいけない。