áit

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

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ɑːtʲ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /aːtʲ/

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

1. place, area

   Synonym: ionad

   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 19:

     tā n āc šə šḱiŕəx.

     conventional orthography: Tá an áit seo sciorrach.

     This place is slippery.

2. space, room
   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 19:

     tugī ə wȧlə agi hēn iəd šə, ńīl ēn āc ʒōb ən̄šó ńīs faȷə.

     conventional orthography: 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.

• Alternative plural: áiteacha (Cois Fharraige)
• Archaic weak plural forms:

  Nominative/vocative: áite

  Genitive: áit

  Dative: áitibh

• “áit”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “áitt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• 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
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 33