different between ast vs ait

English

Verb

ast

1. Pronunciation spelling of asked, simple past tense and past participle of ask
   • 1937, w:John Steinbeck, w:Of Mice and Men, Penguin Books Limited (2000) ?ISBN:

     Curley said, "Well, I didn't mean nothing, Slim. I just ast you."

Anagrams

• ATS, ATs, S. A. T., S.A.T., SAT, STA, Sat, Sat., Sta, Sta., T.A.s, TA's, TAS, TAs, TSA, Tas, Tas., at's, ats, sat, sat., sta, tas

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin hasta (“spear, lance”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ast/

Noun

ast m (plural asts or astos)

1. spit, skewer

Derived terms

• aster
• enastar

Further reading

• “ast” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German ast, from Old High German ast.

Noun

ast m (plural éste)

1. (Sette Comuni) conifer branch

References

• “ast” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ast/, [äs?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ast/, [?st?]

Conjunction

ast

1. but, yet

Synonyms

• (but, yet): at, sed, tamen

References

• ast in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ast in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) astõ

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *astudak.

Verb

ast

1. step

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ast

Noun

ast m

1. branch

Descendants

• Middle High German: ast
  • Cimbrian: ast
  • German: Ast
  • Luxembourgish: Aascht

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ast

Noun

ast m

1. branch

Descendants

• Middle Low German: ast

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