# ait
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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

ait (plural aits)
* 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)
* (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

## Crimean Tatar
### Etymology

From Arabic عَائِد (ʕāʔid).

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: a‧it

### Postposition

ait (+ dative)
* concerning, relating (to)

### References

* “ait”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

## Estonian
### Etymology

* PIE word
* *h₂eǵ-
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: /ˈɑi̯t/, [ˈɑi̯tˑ]
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* Rhymes: -ɑit
* Hyphenation: ait

### Noun

ait (genitive aida, partitive aita)
* 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 laudamüüridthe 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 [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

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛ

### Verb

ait
* third-person singular present subjunctive of avoir

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* (Munster) IPA: /atʲ/, /ɑtʲ/
* (Connacht, Ulster) IPA: /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)
* pleasant, likeable
* fine, excellent
* comical; queer

##### Derived terms

* aiteach
* aiteacht
* is ait le

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

ait m
* genitive singular of at

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 126, page 67
* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 187, page 93
* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aitt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

### Further reading

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

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈa.it/, [ˈäɪt̪]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈa.it/, [ˈäːit̪]
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
* 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
* third-person singular present subjunctive of aidier

## Old Tupi
### Noun

ait
* Lamy spelling of a'i

## Scots
### Etymology 1

From Middle English eten, from Old English etan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /et/, /ɛt/

#### Verb

ait (third-person singular simple present aits, present participle aitin', simple past ?, past participle ?)
* to eat

#### References

* “ait, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

### Etymology 2

From Middle English ete, ate, æte, from Old English ǣt (“food, eating”), from Proto-West Germanic *āt.

#### Noun

ait (plural aits)
* meal; food

#### References

* “ait, n$^1$”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

### Etymology 3

From Middle English ote, from Old English āte.

#### Alternative forms

* aet, ate, yit

#### Noun

ait (plural aits)
* oat

##### Derived terms

* aiten

#### References

* “ait, n$^2$”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

### Etymology 4

Compare Norwegian ætt.

#### Noun

ait (plural aits)
* (obsolete) custom, habit

#### References

* “ait, n$^3$”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

## Turkish
### Etymology

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

### Postposition

ait
* [with dative] 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: /ai̯t/

### Verb

ait
* (literary) second-person singular imperfect indicative/conditional of mynd

#### Synonyms

* aet (colloquial)
* elet (colloquial)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.