ait
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English eyt, eit, from Old English īġeoþ, īgoþ, iggaþ, iggoþ (“ait, eyot, islet, small island”), diminutive of īġ, ēġ, īeġ (“island”). More at eyot.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
ait (plural aits)
- An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.
- 1649, R. Hodges, unknown title:
- The ait where the osiers grew.
- 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 148:
- ‘[H]e the said seigneur, in quality of Lord Paramount, is to all intents and purposes invested with the sole right and property of the river running through his fief, together with […] all the islands and aits within it.’
- 1833, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life trans. John Oxenford, book 9,
- Striking richness of vegetation which follows in the windings of the Rhine, marks its banks, islands, and aits.
- 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
- Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows.
Synonyms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Scots ait, ate, from Middle English ate, from Old English āte. More at oat.
Noun edit
ait (plural aits)
- (Scotland) An oat.
- 1785, Robbie Burns, Scotch Drink:
- Let husky wheat the haughs adorn,
An' aits set up their awnie horn,
Anagrams edit
Estonian edit
Etymology edit
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Inherited from Proto-Finnic *aitta (“storehouse”), probably from *ajadak (“to go (in a vehicle); to drive”) (with the suffix *-tta), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *aja- (“to drive; to hunt, chase”), borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háȷ́ati (“to drive, lead”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti (“to be driving”), from *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”).
Cognate with Finnish aitta, Ingrian aitta, Livonian āita, Ludian ait and Võro ait.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɑit
- Hyphenation: ait
Noun edit
ait (genitive aida, partitive aita)
- a barn, granary, warehouse, storehouse (building for storing food and other supplies, in a farm household)
- vanaisa talust on alles ait, kelder, saun ning maakivist laudamüürid
- the barn, cellar, sauna and earthen stone board walls remain from my grandfather's farm
Declension edit
Declension of ait (ÕS type 22u/leib, t-d gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | ait | aidad | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | aida | ||
genitive | aitade | ||
partitive | aita | aitu aitasid | |
illative | aita aidasse |
aitadesse aidusse | |
inessive | aidas | aitades aidus | |
elative | aidast | aitadest aidust | |
allative | aidale | aitadele aidule | |
adessive | aidal | aitadel aidul | |
ablative | aidalt | aitadelt aidult | |
translative | aidaks | aitadeks aiduks | |
terminative | aidani | aitadeni | |
essive | aidana | aitadena | |
abessive | aidata | aitadeta | |
comitative | aidaga | aitadega |
References edit
- ait in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
- “ait”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (online version, in Estonian), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “ait”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (online version, in Estonian), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018
French edit
Pronunciation edit
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ait
Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Irish aitt (“pleasant, agreeable; strange, unusual”, adjective).[3]
Adjective edit
ait (genitive singular masculine ait, genitive singular feminine aite, plural aite, comparative aite)
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
ait m
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
ait | n-ait | hait | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 126, page 67
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 187, page 93
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “aitt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “ait”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈa.it/, [ˈäɪt̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.it/, [ˈäːit̪]
An unambiguous poetic attestation of the two short vowels, in dactylic hexameter:
- ‘Quid mē / lūdis?’, a/it, ‘Quis / tē, male / sāne, iu/bēbat...? (Ovid, Amores 3.7.77)
Verb edit
ait
References edit
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) as Homer sings (not canit): ut ait Homerus
- (ambiguous) as Cicero says: ut ait Cicero (always in this order)
- (ambiguous) as Homer sings (not canit): ut ait Homerus
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
- aït (scholarly convention)
Verb edit
ait
Scots edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English eten, from Old English etan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
ait (third-person singular simple present aits, present participle aitin', simple past ?, past participle ?)
- to eat
References edit
- “ait, v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English ete, ate, æte, from Old English ǣt (“food, eating”), from Proto-West Germanic *āt.
Noun edit
ait (plural aits)
References edit
- “ait, n1” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Etymology 3 edit
From Middle English ote, from Old English āte.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
ait (plural aits)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “ait, n2” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Etymology 4 edit
Noun edit
ait (plural aits)
References edit
- “ait, n3” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish عائد, عاید (aid, ait), from Arabic عَائِد (ʕāʔid). Compare Azerbaijani aid.
Postposition edit
ait
- [+ dative (object)] concerning, relating (to)
References edit
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “ait”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Welsh edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
ait
Synonyms edit
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | h-prothesis |
ait | unchanged | unchanged | hait |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |