ait

See also: áit, AIT, and aitt

§English

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eɪt/
• 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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§Estonian

§Noun

1. barn

§French

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e/ or IPA^(key): /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.

§Adjective

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

1. pleasant
2. fine
3. comical, queer

§Declension

Declension of ait

First Declension

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	ait	ait¹	aite³
Vocative	ait¹	ait¹	aite
Genitive	ait¹	aite	aite	ait
Dative	ait²	ait¹	aite³
Comparative	aite

¹ This form is lenited after a noun if possible.
² This form is lenited if possible when the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
³ This form is lenited if possible when the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

§Derived terms

• aiteacht (“queerness, oddness”)

§Etymology 2

§Noun

ait

1. genitive singular 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

āit, ait

1. third-person singular present active indicative of āiō
2. it is said (that)

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§Welsh

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ai̯t/

§Verb

ait

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

§Synonyms

• aet (colloquial)
• elet (colloquial)