different between ait vs ate

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English eyt, eit, from Old English ??eoþ, ?goþ, iggaþ, iggoþ (“ait, eyot, islet, small island”), diminutive of ??, ??, ?e? (“island”). More at eyot.

Alternative forms

• eight
• eyet
• eyot

Noun

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.

   • 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.

   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch. 1,

     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 ?te. 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

Etymology

Related to Finnish aitta.

Noun

ait

1. barn

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?/
• Rhymes: -?

Verb

ait

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of avoir

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /at?/

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

• "ait" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “aitt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.it/, [?ä?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.it/, [???it?]

An unambiguous poetic attestation of the two short vowels, in dactylic hexameter:

‘Quid m? / l?dis?’, a/it, ‘Quis / t?, male / s?ne, iu/b?bat...? (Ovid, Amores 3.7.77)

Verb

ait

1. third-person singular present active indicative of ai?

References

• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Old French

Alternative forms

• aït (scholarly convention)

Verb

ait

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of aidier

Polabian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *j?ti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ai?t/

Verb

ait

1. to go

Turkish

Adjective

ait (comparative daha ait, superlative en ait)

1. concerning, relating (to)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ai?t/

Verb

ait

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

Synonyms

• aet (colloquial)
• elet (colloquial)

Mutation

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /e?t/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /e?t/, (dialectal) /?t/
• Rhymes: -?t, -e?t
• Homophones: ait, eight, eyot

Verb

ate

1. simple past tense of eat

   Synonym: (colloquial) et

2. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of eat

Anagrams

• AET, ETA, TEA, Tea, a.e.t., aet, eat, eta, tea, æt.

Asturian

Verb

ate

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of atar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of atar

Basque

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /a.te/

Noun

ate inan

1. door, entrance
2. defile, gorge (deep, narrow passage)
3. (sports) goal (structure)
4. exterior, outside part

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “ate” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
• “ate” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus

Drehu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?e/

Verb

ate

1. to know, be knowledgable

References

• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "?De’u" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?t?/

Verb

ate

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of eten

Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Pacific *qate, from Proto-Oceanic *qate, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

Noun

ate

1. Obsolete spelling of yate

Japanese

Romanization

ate

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Kapampangan

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

Noun

até

1. (anatomy) liver

Laboya

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

Noun

ate

1. (anatomy) liver
2. (figuratively) heart

Derived terms

• ole ate (“friend”)

References

• Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011) , “ate”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 6
• Laboya in Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

Lindu

Noun

ate

1. (anatomy) liver

Lithuanian

Interjection

ate

1. (informal) goodbye

   Synonyms: iki, viso gero

Mandinka

Pronoun

ate

1. he, him (personal pronoun)
2. she, her (personal pronoun)
3. it (personal pronoun)

See also

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qate, from Proto-Oceanic *qate, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

Noun

ate

1. (anatomy) liver (organ of the body)

Middle English

Noun

ate

1. Alternative form of ote

Mori Bawah

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ate/

Noun

ate

1. liver

References

• The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar (2013, ?ISBN, page 684

Ojibwe

Verb

ate (changed conjunct form eteg, reduplicated form ayate, augmented form atemagad)

1. be (in a certain place)

   Gii-kwanabise iwe biskitenaagan imaa adoopowinaakong gaa-ateg.

   The birch bark tray that was sitting on the table tipped over.

Conjugation

See also

• abi
• ayaa
• biinde
• dagon

References

• The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/ate-vii

Portuguese

Verb

ate

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of atar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of atar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of atar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of atar

Rapa Nui

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qate, from Proto-Oceanic *qate, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

Noun

ate

1. (anatomy) liver (organ of the body)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ate/, [?a.t?e]

Etymology 1

Of Nahuatl origin.

Noun

ate m (plural ates)

1. a kind of Mexican jelly candy made by cooking fruit pulp, usually from guava, quince, peach or prickly pear

   Synonym: dulce

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

ate

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of atar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of atar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of atar.

Further reading

• “ate” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Tagalog

Etymology

From Hokkien ?? (á-chí).

Noun

ate (masculine kuya)

1. a big sister: an elder sister, especially the eldest.

2. (informal) respectful term of address or honorific for a young woman or girl or any female older than oneself; miss; sis

3. (informal) A female upperclasswoman; a female senior

See also

• ditse
• sanse
• sitse

Synonyms

• kuya
• manang
• manong

Tocharian B

Alternative forms

• at
• attai
• ?te

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Tocharian *?té, from Proto-Indo-European *éti.

Adverb

ate

1. away

Further reading

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) , “ate”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, ?ISBN, page 10

Wauja

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?t?/

Interjection

ate

1. ow, ouch (expressing pain in response to heat)

References

• E. Ireland field notes. Need to be checked by native speaker.