different between ait vs git

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

Alternative forms

• get

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• Homophone: ghit (one pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Middle English get (“[illegitimate] offspring”). A southern variant of Scots get (“illegitimate child, brat”), related to beget.

Noun

git (plural gits)

1. (Britain, slang, derogatory) A silly, incompetent, stupid, annoying, or childish person (usually a man).
   • 2000 December 18, BBC and Bafta Tribute to Michael Caine, 16:43–17:05:

     Parkinson: You made films before, but the part that really made your name was Zulu, wasn't it […] and there of course—against type—you played the toff, you played the officer.

     Caine: I played the officer, yeah, and everybody thought I was like that. Everyone was so shocked when they met me, this like Cockney guy had played this toffee-nosed git.

Usage notes

• Git is usually used as an insult, more severe than twit but less severe than a true profanity like wanker or arsehole, and may often be used affectionately between friends. Get can also be used, with a subtle change of meaning. "You cheeky get!" is slightly less harsh than "You cheeky git!".
• Git is frequently used in conjunction with another word to achieve a more specific meaning. For instance a "smarmy git" refers to a person of a slimy, ingratiating disposition; a "jammy git" would be a person with undeserved luck. The phrase "grumpy old git", denoting a cantankerous old man, is used with particular frequency.
• In parts of northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland, get is still used in preference to git. In the Republic of Ireland, get, rather than git is used.
• The word has been ruled by the Speaker of the House of Commons to be unparliamentary language.

Translations

Verb

git (third-person singular simple present gitting, present participle got, simple past and past participle gotten)

1. (Appalachia, Southern US, African-American Vernacular) To get, begone.
2. (Appalachia, Southern US, African-American Vernacular) To get (leave; scram; begone).

Etymology 2

Noun

git (plural gits)

1. Alternative form of geat (channel in metal casting)

See also

• git gud

References

Anagrams

• GTi, IGT, tig

Dutch

Etymology

From French jet, or directly from Latin gag?t?s after Ancient Greek ??????? (Gagát?s), from ????? (Gágas, “a town and river in Lycia”).

Pronunciation

Noun

git n or f (plural gitten, diminutive gitje n)

1. (neuter) lignite
2. (neuter) jet (black, gemstone-like geological material)
3. (masculine) a stone made of this material

Derived terms

• gitzwart (jet-black, the blackest black)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i/

Verb

git

1. Post-1990 spelling of gît. (third-person singular present indicative of gésir)

Latin

Etymology

Compare Hebrew ????? (gad)(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

git n (indeclinable)

1. A plant (Nigella sativa), variously named black cumin, Roman coriander, or melanthion.

References

• git in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• git in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *jit, from Proto-Germanic *jut. Cognate with North Frisian jat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jit/

Pronoun

?it

1. you two (nominative dual form of þ?)

Related terms

• incit
• inc
• incer

Descendants

• Middle English: ?it, ?itt, ?et

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *jit, from Proto-Germanic *jut, remodeled in Proto-Northwest Germanic to *jit by analogy with *wit.

Pronoun

git

1. You two; nominative dual of th?

Declension

Polish

Etymology

From Yiddish ???? (gut), from Old High German guot, from Proto-Germanic *g?daz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??it/

Interjection

git

1. (colloquial) excellent!

Adjective

git

1. (colloquial) just right

Declension

Indeclinable.

Further reading

• git in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• git in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??it/
• Hyphenation: git

Verb

git

1. second-person singular imperative of gitmek

Antonyms

• gitme
• gel

Vilamovian

Noun

git f

1. goodness

Volapük

Noun

git (nominative plural gits)

1. law (body of binding rules and regulations, customs and standards)

Declension

Derived terms

• gitav (“jurisprudence”)
• gitavan (“jurist”)
• gitavik (“juristic”)
• gitäd (“judiciary”)
• gität (“right”)
• gitätön (“have the right”)
• gitik (“juridicial”)
• gitod (“justification”)
• gitöf (“legitimacy”)
• gitöfik (“legitimate”)