ais

See also -ais, -áis, Ais, Äis, AIS, and A.I.s

English

Noun

ais

1. Plural form of ai

Anagrams

• is-a, Isa, Isa., ISA
• sai

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Estonian

Noun

ais (^??? please provide the genitive and partitive!)

1. shaft, any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed to a vehicle, the drive shaft of an engine
2. thill

Declension

This Estonian noun needs an inflection-table template.

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French

Etymology

Latin axis.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɛ/

Noun

ais m (plural ais)

1. board, plank

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Guernésiais

Etymology

From Latin axis.

Noun

ais m (plural ais)

1. shelf, mantlepiece

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Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish ais (“back”).

Noun

ais

1. back

Usage notes

Used only in the two following adverbial phrases:

• ar ais (“back”)
• le hais (“beside, compared with”)

Etymology 2

Noun

ais f (genitive aise, nominative plural aiseanna)

1. axis

   ais an Domhain – "Earth's axis"

Declension

Declension of ais

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative ais aiseanna Vocative a ais a aiseanna Genitive aise aiseanna Dative ais aiseanna

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an ais na haiseanna Genitive na haise na n-aiseanna Dative leis an ais don ais leis na haiseanna

Derived terms

• aon-aiseach
• mór-ais

Mutation

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

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Jèrriais

Etymology

From Latin axis.

Noun

ais m (plural ais)

1. shelf

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Latin

Verb

aīs, ais

1. second-person singular present active indicative of āiō
   1. "you say, you affirm"

Derived terms

• aisne tu (ain' tu)

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Malay

ais

Noun

ais

1. ice (water in frozen form)

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

ais m (Cyrillic spelling аис)

1. (music) A-sharp

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Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh eis, from Brythonic *assī, from Proto-Celtic *astū, from pre-Celtic *h₂estōn, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂óst (gen. *h₂ésts) *h₃ost- (“bone”) (compare Irish easna, Latin os, Albanian asht). Doublet of asen; related to asgwrn.

Noun

ais f (singulative eisen)

1. (anatomy) ribs
2. laths

Synonyms

• (ribs): asennau