aosta
See also: Aosta
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish áesta (“old, ancient”), from áes (“age”).[1] By surface analysis, aois (“age”) + -ta.
Pronunciation
Derived terms
- anaosta (“youthful”, adjective)
- aostach m (“old person”)
- aostacht f (“oldness; old age”)
- breacaosta (“fairly old”, adjective)
- bunaosta (“middle-aged”, adjective)
- cianaosta (“long-lived”, adjective)
- cnagaosta (“elderly”, adjective)
- comhaosta (“contemporary”, adjective)
- críonaosta (“old and withered”, adjective)
- foraosta (“very old”, adjective)
- lánaosta (“of full age; rather old”, adjective)
- meánaosta (“middle-aged”, adjective)
- scothaosta (“fairly old, elderly”, adjective)
- tonnaosta (“getting on in years”, adjective)
- tromaosta (“of advanced age”, adjective)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| aosta | n-aosta | haosta | not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “áesta”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aosta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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