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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.
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.
From Scots ait, ate, from Middle English ate, from Old English āte. More at oat.
ait (plural aits)
- (Scotland) An oat.
1785, Robbie Burns, Scotch Drink:
Let husky wheat the haughs adorn,
An' aits set up their awnie horn,
- Hyphenation: a‧it
ait (+ dative)
- concerning, relating (to)
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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.
- Rhymes: -ɑit
- Hyphenation: ait
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
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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 |
- ait in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
- “ait”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “ait”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
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From Old Irish aitt (“pleasant, agreeable; strange, unusual”, adjective).[3]
ait (genitive singular masculine ait, genitive singular feminine aite, plural aite, comparative aite)
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | ait | ait | aite | |
Vocative | ait | aite | ||
Genitive | aite | aite | ait | |
Dative | ait | ait | aite | |
Comparative | níos aite | |||
Superlative | is aite |
ait m
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. |
- ^ 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
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aitt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ait”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- (Classical Latin) 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)
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- 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
- aït (scholarly convention)
ait
From Middle English eten, from Old English etan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan.
ait (third-person singular simple present aits, present participle aitin', simple past ?, past participle ?)
- to eat
- “ait, v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
From Middle English ete, ate, æte, from Old English ǣt (“food, eating”), from Proto-West Germanic *āt.
ait (plural aits)
- “ait, n1” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
From Middle English ote, from Old English āte.
ait (plural aits)
- “ait, n2” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
ait (plural aits)
- “ait, n3” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish عائد, عاید (aid, ait), from Arabic عَائِد (ʕāʔid). Compare Azerbaijani aid.
ait
- [with dative] concerning, relating (to)
Tek bir hayatımız var ve bu hayat bize ait.
- We only have one life, and it's ours.
- “ait”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ait”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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