aosda

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish áesta (“old, ancient”) (compare Irish aosta), from áes (“age, years; stage, period of life; lifetime; age of the world, era”). By surface analysis, aois +‎ -da.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɯstə/

Adjective

aosda

1. old, aged, elderly.

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aosda	n-aosda	h-aosda	t-aosda
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áesta”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language