áit

See also: ait, aitt, AIT, áitt, -ait, and -áit

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish áitt (“place, situation, position”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *yāntī, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂- (“to ride, travel”).

Pronunciation

Noun

áit f (genitive singular áite, nominative plural áiteanna or áiteacha)

  1. place, area
    Synonym: ionad
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 19:
      tā n āc šə šḱiŕəx.
      [Tá an áit seo sciorrach.]
      This place is slippery.
  2. space, room
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 19:
      tugī ə wȧlə agi hēn iəd šə, ńīl ēn āc ʒōb ən̄šó ńīs faȷə.
      [Tugaigí abhaile agaibh féin iad seo, níl aon áit dhóibh níos faide.]
      Bring these things home with you, there’s no more room for them.
  3. holding
  4. situation, circumstances

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:áit.

Declension
Declension of áit

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative áit áiteanna
Vocative a áit a áiteanna
Genitive áite áiteanna
Dative áit áiteanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an áit na háiteanna
Genitive na háite na n-áiteanna
Dative leis an áit

don áit

 leis na háiteanna

Derived terms

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
áit n-áit háit not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “áitt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 67
  3. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 33

Further reading
  • “áit”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “áit”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 20
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “áit”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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