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Translingual

Etymology

From English eight

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?eit]

Numeral

eight

1. Code word for the digit 8 in the NATO/ICAO spelling alphabet

Synonyms

ITU/IMO code word oktoeight

References

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English eighte, aught, eahte, ahte, from Old English eahta, from Proto-West Germanic *aht?, from Proto-Germanic *aht?u, from Proto-Indo-European *o?t?w.

Cognate with Scots aucht (“eight”), West Frisian acht (“eight”), Dutch acht (“eight”), Low German acht (“eight”), German acht (“eight”), Norwegian åtte (“eight”), Swedish åtta (“eight”), Icelandic átta (“eight”), Latin octo (“eight”), Ancient Greek ???? (okt?), Irish ocht (“eight”).

Alternative forms

• aught (Scotland, archaic, rare)
• Western (Arabic) numerals: 8
• Roman numerals: VIII

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: ?t, IPA^(key): /e?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t
• Homophones: ait, ate, eyot

Numeral

eight

1. A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.
   • 2009, Stuart Heritage, Hecklerspray, Friday the 22nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”

     Jon & Kate Plus 8 is a show based on two facts: 1) Jon and Kate Gosselin have eight children, and 2) the word ‘Kate’ rhymes with the word ‘eight’. One suspects that if Kate were ever to have another child, a shady network executive would urge her to put it in a binbag with a brick and drop it down a well. But this is just a horrifying tangent.

2. Describing a group or set with eight elements.

   He works eight hours a day.

Related terms

• eighth

Translations

See also

• Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

Noun

eight (plural eights)

1. The digit/figure 8.
2. (playing cards) Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.
3. (nautical) A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars.
4. (rowing, especially in plural) A race in which such craft participate.
5. (rowing) The eight people who crew a rowing-boat.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• section 8

Adjective

eight (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of eighth

Etymology 2

See ait.

Noun

eight (plural eights)

1. Alternative spelling of ait (island in a river)

References

Anagrams

• Tighe

Middle English

Numeral

eight

1. Alternative form of eighte

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Etymology

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Verb

eight

1. to eat

References

• J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)

English

Interjection

eigh

1. Alternative form of eh
   • 1897, H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man (page 55)

     "Eigh?" said Kemp, with his mouth open. "Keep your nerve," said the Voice. "I'm an Invisible Man."

   • 1935, Paul Green, This Body the Earth

     "Eigh, eigh! he's killed me!" Mr. Utley shrieked. But none of the students made a move out of their seats.

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• deigh
• eighre

Etymology

From Old Irish aig, itself from Proto-Celtic *yegis. Cognate with Irish oighear, Welsh iâ, and Cornish yey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ej/

Noun

eigh f (genitive singular eighe, no plural)

1. ice

Derived terms

• eigh-bheinn
• eigh-shruth
• leac-eighre