áit

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

Irish

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

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

place, area
Synonym: ionad
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], 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.
space, room
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], 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.
holding
situation, circumstances

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

Declension of áit (second declension)

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

Mutated forms of *áit*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
áit	n-áit	háit	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áitt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 126, page 67
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 77, page 33