daunt

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To discourage, intimidate.

   [The English] valiantly, and with the ſlaughter of many, put backe the enemy: which was ſo farre from daunting the Normans, that by it they were more whetted to re-enforce themſelues vpon them[…]

2. 2
   verb

   cause to lose courage

3. 3
   verb

   To overwhelm.

4. 4
   name

   A surname from Middle English.

Etymology

From Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, donter (“to tame”), from Latin domitō (“tame”, verb), frequentative of Latin domō (“tame, conquer”, verb), from Proto-Italic *domaō, from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to domesticate, tame”). Doublet of dompt.