étai

See also: étaï

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.tɛ/, /e.te/
• Homophones: étaie, étaient, étaies, étais, était, été (some speakers)

Etymology 1

From Old French estai, from Old English stæġ (“rope, stay”), from Proto-Germanic *stagą. More at stay.

Noun

étai m (plural étais)

1. (nautical) a stay

Etymology 2

From Middle French estaie, from Old French atay, escai, *estai, of Germanic origin. More at stay.

Noun

étai m (plural étais)

1. stay, prop, strut, support

Further reading

• “étai”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeːdi/

Verb

·étai

1. second-person singular present indicative prototonic of ad·cota

Mutation

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