See also: -ait, -áit, AIT, aitt, áit, and áitt

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.

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Noun edit

 
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ait (plural aits)

  1. 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.
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Etymology 2 edit

From Scots ait, ate, from Middle English ate, from Old English āte. More at oat.

Noun edit

ait (plural aits)

  1. (Scotland) An oat.
    • 1785, Robbie Burns, Scotch Drink:
      Let husky wheat the haughs adorn,
      An' aits set up their awnie horn,

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Estonian edit

 
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A farm granary in Ruhnu, Estonia.

Etymology edit

PIE word
*h₂eǵ-

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

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑi̯t/, [ˈɑi̯tˑ]
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  • Rhymes: -ɑit
  • Hyphenation: ait

Noun edit

ait (genitive aida, partitive aita)

  1. 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
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Declension edit

Declension of ait (ÕS type 22u/leib, t-d gradation)
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

  • IPA(key): /ɛ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes:

Verb edit

ait

  1. third-person singular present subjunctive of avoir

Irish edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Irish aitt (pleasant, agreeable; strange, unusual, adjective).[3]

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ait (genitive singular masculine ait, genitive singular feminine aite, plural aite, comparative aite)

  1. pleasant, likeable
  2. fine, excellent
  3. comical; queer
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Noun edit

ait m

  1. genitive singular of at

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
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

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 126, page 67
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 187, page 93
  3. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “aitt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Latin edit

Pronunciation edit

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

  1. third-person singular present/perfect active indicative of aiō

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)

Old French edit

Alternative forms edit

  • aït (scholarly convention)

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ait

  1. third-person singular present subjunctive of aidier

Scots edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English eten, from Old English etan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan.

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Verb edit

ait (third-person singular simple present aits, present participle aitin', simple past ?, past participle ?)

  1. to eat

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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)

  1. meal; food

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Etymology 3 edit

From Middle English ote, from Old English āte.

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Noun edit

ait (plural aits)

  1. oat
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Etymology 4 edit

Compare Norwegian ætt.

Noun edit

ait (plural aits)

  1. (obsolete) custom, habit

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Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish عائد, عاید (aid, ait), from Arabic عَائِد (ʕāʔid). Compare Azerbaijani aid.

Postposition edit

ait

  1. [+ dative (object)] concerning, relating (to)

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Welsh edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

ait

  1. (literary) second-person singular imperfect indicative/conditional of mynd

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Mutation edit

Welsh mutation
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.