aosta

See also: Aosta

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish áesta (“old, ancient”), from áes (“age, years; stage, period of life; lifetime; age of the world, era”); synchronically aois (“age”) +‎ -ta.

Pronunciation

(Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈeːsˠt̪ˠə/
(Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈiːsˠt̪ˠə/

Adjective

aosta

aged, old

Derived terms

anaosta (“youthful”, adjective)
aostach m (“old person”)
aostacht f (“oldness; old age”)
breacaosta (“fairly old”, adjective)

bunaosta (“fairly old; middle-aged”, adjective)
cianaosta (“long-lived, very old; pristine, primeval”, adjective)
cnagaosta (“advanced in years, elderly”, adjective)
comhaosta (“of the same age; contemporary, coeval”, adjective)

críonaosta (“old and withered”, adjective)
foraosta (“very old”, adjective)
lánaosta (“of full age; rather old”, adjective)
meánaosta (“middle-aged”, adjective)

scothaosta (“fairly old, elderly”, adjective)
tonnaosta (“getting on in years”, adjective)
tromaosta (“of advanced age”, adjective)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aosta	n-aosta	haosta	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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

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