different between ait vs skerry
ait
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)
- 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.
- 1649, R. Hodges, unknown title
Synonyms
- eyot
Etymology 2
From Scots ait, ate, from Middle English ate, from Old English ?te. 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,
- Let husky wheat the haughs adorn,
- 1785, Robbie Burns, Scotch Drink
Anagrams
- IAT, ITA, TAI, TIA, Tai, Tia, ita, tai, tia
Estonian
Etymology
Related to Finnish aitta.
Noun
ait
- barn
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?/
- Rhymes: -?
Verb
ait
- 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)
- pleasant, likeable
- fine, excellent
- comical; queer
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
ait m
- 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
- 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
- third-person singular present subjunctive of aidier
Polabian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *j?ti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ai?t/
Verb
ait
- to go
Turkish
Adjective
ait (comparative daha ait, superlative en ait)
- concerning, relating (to)
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ai?t/
Verb
ait
- (literary) second-person singular imperfect indicative/conditional of mynd
Synonyms
- aet (colloquial)
- elet (colloquial)
Mutation
ait From the web:
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skerry
English
Etymology
From dialectal Scots (Shetlandic and Orcadian) skerry, from Old Norse sker (whence Danish skær and Norwegian Bokmål skjær).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?sk??i/
- Rhymes: -?ri
- Homophone: scary (Mary–marry–merry merger)
Noun
skerry (plural skerries)
- A small rocky island which may be covered by the sea at high tide or during storms.
Translations
Anagrams
- skryer
Scots
Etymology
From Old Norse sker.
Noun
skerry (plural skerries)
- (chiefly Orkney, Shetland) skerry, reef
Further reading
- “skerry” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
skerry From the web:
- skerry meaning
- skerry what does it mean
- what does skerryvore mean
- what does scary mean in geography
- what do skerry mean
- what does scary mean in english
- what does scurry mean
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