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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish áesta (“old, ancient”), from áes (“age”). By surface analysis, aois (“age”) + -ta.
Pronunciation
Adjective
aosta
- aged, old
Derived terms
- anaosta (“youthful”, adjective)
- aostach m (“old person”)
- aostacht f (“oldness; old age”)
- breacaosta (“fairly old”, adjective)
- bunaosta (“middle-aged”, adjective)
- cianaosta (“long-lived”, adjective)
- cnagaosta (“elderly”, adjective)
- comhaosta (“contemporary”, adjective)
- críonaosta (“old and withered”, adjective)
- foraosta (“very old”, adjective)
- lánaosta (“of full age; rather old”, adjective)
- meánaosta (“middle-aged”, adjective)
- scothaosta (“fairly old, elderly”, adjective)
- tonnaosta (“getting on in years”, adjective)
- tromaosta (“of advanced age”, adjective)
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| aosta
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n-aosta
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haosta
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not applicable
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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