airt

From Scots airt.

airt (third-person singular simple present airts, present participle airting, simple past and past participle airted)

1. (Scotland) To guide; to direct.

airt (plural airts)

1. (Scotland) direction; quarter
   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     He looked the airt the rain was coming from, and he saw it was the airt the Sker flowed.

• Atri, ITAR, Rati, Rita, tiar

airt

1. inflection of art:
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

• IPA^(key): /ert/, /ɛrt/

From Middle English art, from Old French art, from Latin artem, accusative of ars.

• airth

airt (plural airts)

1. art
2. skill

• airty

• “airt, n.¹”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

From Northern Middle English art (“district, locality”).

• airth, ert

airt (plural airts)

1. quarter of the compass
2. direction, area

airt (third-person singular simple present airts, present participle airtin, simple past airtit, past participle airtit)

1. (transitive) to guide, direct
2. (intransitive) to direct one's way; to make for
3. (transitive) to confine, to constrain, to force, to incite

• “airt, n.2 & v. tr.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.