áitt

See also: aitt

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *yāntī, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂- (“to ride, travel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aːtʲ/

Noun

áitt f

1. place, situation, position; dwelling, abode
2. passage (in a book)
3. place formerly occupied by someone or something

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	áittL	áittL	áitteH
Vocative	áittL	áittL	áitteH
Accusative	áittN	áittL	áitteH
Genitive	áitteH	áittL	áittN
Dative	áittL	áttaib	áttaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: áit
• Scottish Gaelic: àite

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
áitt (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-áitt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áitt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language