ait

See also áit, AIT, and aitt

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪt

Noun

Wikipedia ait (plural aits)

1. An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.
   • R. Hodges (1649)

     The ait where the osiers grew.

   • 1833, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life trans. John Oxenford, book 9,

     Striking richness of vegetation which follows in the windings of the Rhine, marks its banks, islands, and aits.

   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch. 1,

     Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows.

2. (Scotland) An oat.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burns to this entry?)

Synonyms

• eyot

Anagrams

• ITA
• Tai
• tia, Tia, TIA

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /e/, X-SAMPA: /e/ or IPA: /ɛ/, X-SAMPA: /E/

Verb

ait

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of avoir

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Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish aitt.

Adjective

ait

1. pleasant
2. fine
3. comical, queer

Declension

Declension of ait

First Declension

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	masc.	fem.	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	ait		aite
Vocative	ait	ait	aite
Genitive	ait	aite	aite	ait
Dative	ait		aite
Comparative	aite

Derived terms

• aiteacht (“queerness, oddness”)

Etymology 2

Noun

ait

1. genitive singular form of at

Mutation

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

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Latin

Verb

aīt, ait

1. third-person singular present active indicative of āiō
   1. "he (she, it) says, he (she, it) affirms"