English edit

Noun edit

toit (plural toits)

  1. (UK, dialect) A cushion.

Anagrams edit

Bourguignon edit

Etymology edit

From Latin tectum.

Noun edit

toit m (plural toits)

  1. roof

Estonian edit

Etymology edit

Derived from toitma.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

toit (genitive toidu, partitive toitu)

  1. food

Declension edit

Declension of toit (ÕS type 22e/riik, t-d gradation)
singular plural
nominative toit toidud
accusative nom.
gen. toidu
genitive toitude
partitive toitu toite
toitusid
illative toitu
toidusse
toitudesse
toidesse
inessive toidus toitudes
toides
elative toidust toitudest
toidest
allative toidule toitudele
toidele
adessive toidul toitudel
toidel
ablative toidult toitudelt
toidelt
translative toiduks toitudeks
toideks
terminative toiduni toitudeni
essive toiduna toitudena
abessive toiduta toitudeta
comitative toiduga toitudega

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

  • toit in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
  • toit”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (online version, in Estonian), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • toit”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (online version, in Estonian), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018

Finnish edit

Verb edit

toit

  1. second-person singular past indicative of tuoda

Anagrams edit

French edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old French toit, teit, from Latin tēctum.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

toit m (plural toits)

  1. roof

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

Irish edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

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

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Mutation edit

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.

References edit

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

Further reading edit

Old French edit

Etymology edit

Earlier teit, from Latin tēctum.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

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

  1. roof

Descendants edit

  • French: toit

Scottish Gaelic edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

toit f (genitive singular toite, plural toitean)

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

Mutation edit

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.

References edit

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