ait

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

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ait

Wikipedia

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, published 2001, page 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.

   • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1853, →OCLC:

     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

Estonian

Estonian Wikipedia has an article on:

ait

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Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *aitta (“storehouse”), probably from *ajadak (“to go (in a vehicle); to drive”) (with the suffix *-tta), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *aja- (“to drive; to hunt, chase”), borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háȷ́ati (“to drive, lead”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti (“to be driving”), from *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”).

Cognate with Finnish aitta, Ingrian aitta, Livonian āita, Ludian ait and Võro ait.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑi̯t/,

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• Rhymes: -ɑit
• Hyphenation: ait

Noun

ait (genitive aida, partitive aita)

1. a barn, granary, warehouse, storehouse (building for storing food and other supplies, in a farm household)

   vanaisa talust on alles ait, kelder, saun ning maakivist laudamüürid

   the barn, cellar, sauna and earthen stone board walls remain from my grandfather's farm

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Declension

References

• ait in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “ait”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “ait”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛ

Verb

ait

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of avoir

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /atʲ/, /ɑtʲ/
• (Connacht, Ulster) 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

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

ait m

1. genitive singular of at

Mutation

References

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ait”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.it/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.it/,

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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) as Homer sings (not canit): ut ait Homerus
    
  • (ambiguous) as Cicero says: ut ait Cicero (always in this order)
    

Old French

Alternative forms

• aït (scholarly convention)

Verb

ait

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of aidier

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.

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish عائد, عاید (aid, ait), from Arabic عَائِد (ʕāʔid). Compare Azerbaijani aid.

Postposition

ait

1. concerning, relating (to)

   Tek bir hayatımız var ve bu hayat bize ait.

   We only have one life, and it's ours.

Further reading

• “ait”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ait”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ai̯t/

Verb

ait

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

Synonyms

• aet (colloquial)
• elet (colloquial)

Mutation