EnglishEdit

NounEdit

toit (plural toits)

  1. (UK, dialect) A cushion.

AnagramsEdit

BourguignonEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin tectum.

NounEdit

toit m (plural toits)

  1. roof

EstonianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Derived from toitma.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

toit (genitive toidu, partitive toitu)

  1. food

DeclensionEdit

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

FinnishEdit

VerbEdit

toit

  1. second-person singular past indicative of tuoda

AnagramsEdit

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

(Oblique form of) Old French toit, earlier teits, from Latin tēctum.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

toit m (plural toits)

  1. roof

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

A variant of Middle Irish tútt (stench); compare Scottish Gaelic toit.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

toit f (genitive singular toite, nominative plural toiteanna)

  1. smoke
    Proverb: An áit a mbíonn toit bíonn tine.Where there's smoke, there's fire.
    Níl sa saol ach gaoth agus toit.The world is only wind and smoke.
    1. vapour, steam
      Proverb: Níl sa saol ach gaoth is toit.Life is only wind and vapour.
  2. (familiar) batch of shellfish, piece of meat, etc., roasted on embers

DeclensionEdit

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

MutationEdit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
toit thoit dtoit
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 13

Further readingEdit

Old FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Earlier teit, from Latin tēctum.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

toit m (oblique plural toiz or toitz, nominative singular toiz or toitz, nominative plural toit)

  1. roof

DescendantsEdit

  • French: toit

Scottish GaelicEdit

EtymologyEdit

A variant of Middle Irish tútt (stench), from Proto-Celtic *tutto, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (hazy, dark);[1] compare Irish toit.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

toit f (genitive singular toite, plural toitean)

  1. steam
  2. smoke
  3. cloud (of smoke)

MutationEdit

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
toit thoit
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “toit”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN