ayth

Yola

Alternative forms

• eight

Etymology

From Middle English eten, from Old English etan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan. Cognate with Scots ait (“to eat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eːt̪/, /eːxt/
• Homophone: ayght

Verb

ayth (second-person singular eighthest, present participle atheen, past at)

1. to eat

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 23