aita

See also: aitā and Aita

Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aiˈta/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

aita

  1. father
    Nire aitaren etxea / defendituko dut.
    My father's home / I will defend.
  2. priest
  3. autor

Declension

"aita"
(animate noun) declension
indefinite singular plural
absolutive aita aita aitak
ergative aitak aitak aitek
dative aitari aitari aitei
genitive aitaren aitaren aiten
comitative aitarekin aitarekin aitekin
causative aitarengatik aitarengatik aitengatik
benefactive aitarentzat aitarentzat aitentzat
instrumental aitaz aitaz aitez
inessive aitarengan aitarengan aitengan
allative aitarengana aitarengana aitengana
terminative aitarenganaino aitarenganaino aitenganaino
directive aitarenganantz aitarenganantz aitenganantz
destinative aitarenganako aitarenganako aitenganako
ablative aitarengandik aitarengandik aitengandik
partitive aitarik
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-
prolative aitatzat
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-

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aita. Cognate with Karelian aidu, Estonian aed.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɑit̪ɑ]
  • Rhymes: -ɑitɑ
  • Hyphenation: ai‧ta

Noun

aita

  1. fence
  2. (low) wall

Declension

Inflection of aita (Kotus type 9/kala, t-d gradation)
nominative aita aidat
genitive aidan aitojen
partitive aitaa aitoja
illative aitaan aitoihin
singular plural
nominative aita aidat
accusative nom. aita aidat
gen. aidan
genitive aidan aitojen
aitainrare
partitive aitaa aitoja
inessive aidassa aidoissa
elative aidasta aidoista
illative aitaan aitoihin
adessive aidalla aidoilla
ablative aidalta aidoilta
allative aidalle aidoille
essive aitana aitoina
translative aidaksi aidoiksi
instructive — aidoin
abessive aidatta aidoitta
comitative — aitoineen

Derived terms

Compounds

Italian

Verb

aita

  1. third-person singular present indicative of aitare
  2. second-person singular imperative of aitare

Latvian

Aita

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *aitā, from Proto-Indo-European *ey-, *oy- (“to go”) (cf. iet) with an extra syllable tā. The original meaning was thus “goer, one that goes (around),” a common source of words for “sheep” (cf. Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian баран (baran), a borrowing from Proto-Turkic *baran (“one that goes”)). An alternative theory, which derives aita from the diminutive avitiņa of dated avs (“sheep”) is less likely to be correct, since the avi > ai change would be irregular. Cognates include Lithuanian áita (feminine), áitas (“one who walks around a lot; restless person”) (masculine), Old Prussian aytegenis (“small (quick, restless) woodpecker”), Russian dialectal етенька (jetenʹka, “name used to call sheep”) (from *ěta- (*ěta-) < *ait- (*ait-)), Hittite 𒇻 (iyant-, “sheep”) (lit. “goer, one that goes”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [àjta]
(file)

Noun

aita f (4th declension)

  1. sheep (esp. Ovis aries; generic word)
    mājas aita ― domestic sheep
    aitu gans ― sheep herd (shepherd, person)
    aitu suns ― sheep dog (shepherd, dog breed)
    cirpt aitas ― to shear the sheep

Usage notes

The term aita is more frequent than avs, both as a generic and as the specific name of the female.

Declension

See also

References

  1. ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “aita”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Polabian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *otьcь, from Proto-Indo-European *átta.

Noun

aita

  1. father

Spanish

Etymology

Basque.

Noun

aita m (plural aitas)

  1. (Spain, Basque Country, Navarre) dad

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aita.

Noun

aita (genitive aďďaa, partitive [please provide])

  1. garden

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

  • "aita" in Vadja keele sõnaraamat
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