ait

See also: aitt, AIT, áit, áitt, -ait, and -áit

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

Etymology 1

From Middle English eyt, eit, from Old English īġeoþ, īgoþ, iggaþ, iggoþ (“ait, eyot, islet, small island”), diminutive of īġ, ēġ, īeġ (“island”). More at eyot.

Alternative forms

• eight
• eyet
• eyot

Noun

ait (plural aits)

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

     The ait where the osiers grew.

   • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview 2001, p. 148:

     ‘[H]e the said seigneur, in quality of Lord Paramount, is to all intents and purposes invested with the sole right and property of the river running through his fief, together with […] all the islands and aits within it.’

   • 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.

Synonyms

• eyot

Etymology 2

From Scots ait, ate, from Middle English ate, from Old English āte. More at oat.

Noun

ait (plural aits)

1. (Scotland) An oat.
   • 1785, Robbie Burns, Scotch Drink

     Let husky wheat the haughs adorn,
     An' aits set up their awnie horn,

Anagrams

• IAT, ITA, TAI, TIA, Tai, Tia, ita, tai, tia

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Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aitta. Related to Finnish aitta.

Noun

ait

1. barn

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛ

Verb

ait

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of avoir

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /atʲ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish aitt (“pleasant, agreeable; strange, unusual”, adjective).

Adjective

ait (genitive singular masculine ait, genitive singular feminine aite, plural aite, comparative aite)

1. pleasant, likeable
2. fine, excellent
3. comical; queer

Declension

Declension of ait

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	ait	ait	aite
Vocative	ait		aite
Genitive		aite	aite	ait
Dative	ait	ait	aite
Comparative	níos aite
Superlative	is aite

Derived terms

• aiteach
• aiteacht
• is ait le

 

Etymology 2

Noun

ait m

1. genitive singular of at

Mutation

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

References

• "ait" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “aitt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.it/, [ˈäɪt̪]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.it/, [ˈäːit̪]

An unambiguous poetic attestation of the two short vowels, in dactylic hexameter:

‘Quid mē / lūdis?’, a/it, ‘Quis / tē, male / sāne, iu/bēbat...? (Ovid, Amores 3.7.77)

Verb

ait

1. third-person singular present/perfect active indicative of aiō

References

• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) as Homer sings (not canit): ut ait Homerus
    
  • (ambiguous) as Cicero says: ut ait Cicero (always in this order)
    

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Old French

Alternative forms

• aït (scholarly convention)

Verb

ait

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of aidier

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Polabian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *jьti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ai̯t/

Verb

ait

1. to go

Conjugation

Conjugation of ait

infinitive	{{{1}}}
supine	{{{2}}}
verbal noun	{{{3}}}
participles	present	past
active	{{{4}}}	{{{6}}}
passive	{{{5}}}	{{{7}}}
resultative	—	{{{8}}}
	present	past
1st singular	aidą	{{{18}}}
2nd singular	aidĕs	{{{19}}}
3rd singular	aidĕ	{{{20}}}
1st dual	{{{12}}}	{{{21}}}
2nd dual	{{{13}}}	{{{22}}}
3rd dual	{{{14}}}	{{{23}}}
1st plural	{{{15}}}	{{{24}}}
2nd plural	{{{16}}}	{{{25}}}
3rd plural	{{{17}}}	{{{26}}}
	imperfect	future
1st singular	{{{25}}}	{{{34}}}
2nd singular	{{{26}}}	{{{35}}}
3rd singular	{{{27}}}	{{{36}}}
1st dual	{{{28}}}	{{{37}}}
2nd dual	{{{29}}}	{{{38}}}
3rd dual	{{{30}}}	{{{39}}}
1st plural	{{{31}}}	{{{40}}}
2nd plural	{{{32}}}	{{{41}}}
3rd plural	{{{33}}}	{{{42}}}

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Scots

Etymology 1

From Middle English eten, from Old English etan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /et/, /ɛt/

Verb

ait (third-person singular simple present aits, present participle aitin', simple past ?, past participle ?)

1. to eat

References

• “ait, v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Etymology 2

From Middle English ete, ate, æte, from Old English ǣt (“food, eating”), from Proto-West Germanic *āt.

Noun

ait (plural aits)

1. meal; food

References

• “ait, n¹” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Etymology 3

From Middle English ote, from Old English āte.

Alternative forms

• aet, ate, yit

Noun

ait (plural aits)

1. oat

Derived terms

• aiten

References

• “ait, n²” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Etymology 4

Compare Norwegian ætt.

Noun

ait (plural aits)

1. (obsolete) custom, habit

References

• “ait, n³” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

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Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic عَائِد‎ (ʿāʾid). Compare Azerbaijani aid.

Adjective

ait

1. concerning, relating (to)

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “ait”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ai̯t/

Verb

ait

1. (literary) second-person singular imperfect indicative/conditional of mynd

Synonyms

• aet (colloquial)
• elet (colloquial)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
ait	unchanged	unchanged	hait
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.