airt
English edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
airt (third-person singular simple present airts, present participle airting, simple past and past participle airted)
Noun edit
airt (plural airts)
- (Scotland) direction; quarter
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- He looked the airt the rain was coming from, and he saw it was the airt the Sker flowed.
Anagrams edit
Irish edit
Noun edit
airt
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
airt | n-airt | hairt | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Scots edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English art, from Old French art, from Latin artem, accusative of ars.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
airt (plural airts)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “airt, n.1” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Etymology 2 edit
From Northern Middle English art (“district, locality”).
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
airt (plural airts)
Verb edit
airt (third-person singular simple present airts, present participle airtin, simple past airtit, past participle airtit)
- (transitive) to guide, direct
- (intransitive) to direct one's way; to make for
- (transitive) to confine, to constrain, to force, to incite
References edit
- “airt, n.2 & v. tr.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.