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See also: -ait, -áit, AIT, aitt, áit, and áitt

Translingual

Symbol

ait

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Arikem.

See also

English

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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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

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,

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Etymology

From Arabic عَائِد (ʕāʔid).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: a‧it

Postposition

ait (+ dative)

  1. concerning, relating (to)

References

Estonian

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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/, [ˈɑi̯tˑ]
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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

More information Declension of (ÕS type 22u/leib, t-d gradation), singular ...

References

  • ait in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
  • “ait”, in [EKSS] 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
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French

Pronunciation

Verb

ait

  1. third-person singular present subjunctive of avoir

Irish

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Welsh

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