airt

English

Etymology

From Scots airt.

Verb

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

1. (Scotland) To guide; to direct.

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• Atri, ITAR, Rati, Rita, tiar

Irish

Noun

airt

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

Mutation

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ert/, /ɛrt/

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• airth

Noun

airt (plural airts)

1. art
2. skill

Derived terms

• airty

References

• “airt, n.¹” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• airth, ert

Noun

airt (plural airts)

1. quarter of the compass
2. direction, area

Verb

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

References

• “airt, n.2 & v. tr.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.