aosta

See also: Aosta

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish áesta (“old, ancient”), from áes (“age”). By surface analysis, aois (“age”) +‎ -ta.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

aosta

1. aged, old

Derived terms

• anaosta (“youthful”, adjective)
• aostach m (“old person”)
• aostacht f (“oldness; old age”)
• breacaosta (“fairly old”, adjective)
• bunaosta (“middle-aged”, adjective)
• cianaosta (“long-lived”, adjective)
• cnagaosta (“elderly”, adjective)
• comhaosta (“contemporary”, 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.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aosta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN