ait

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

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eɪt/
  • Rhymes: -eɪt

Etymology 1

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

Noun

ait (plural aits)

  1. An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.
    • R. Hodges (1649)
      The ait where the osiers grew.
    • 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.
    • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch. 1,
      Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows.
Synonyms

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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,

Anagrams

Estonian

Etymology

Related to Finnish aitta.

Noun

ait

  1. barn

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /e/ or IPA(key): /ɛ/

Verb

ait

  1. third-person singular present subjunctive of avoir

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /atʲ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish aitt (“pleasant, agreeable; strange, unusual”, adjective).

Adjective

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

  1. pleasant, likeable
  2. fine, excellent
  3. comical; queer
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

ait m

  1. genitive singular of at

Mutation

Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith 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

  • "ait" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “aitt” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Latin

Verb

āit, ait

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of āiō
  2. it is said (that)

References

  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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

Alternative forms

  • aït (scholarly convention)

Verb

ait

  1. third-person singular present subjunctive of aidier

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ai̯t/

Verb

ait

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

Synonyms

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalh-prothesis
ait unchanged unchanged hait
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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