Old Irish

Noun

aig ?

1. ice

Inflection

Descendants

• Scottish Gaelic: eigh

Etymology 2

Non-lemma forms.

Verb

·aig

1. third-person singular present indicative conjunct of aigid

Verb

aig

1. second-person singular imperative of aigid

Mutation

References

• “aig” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish oc, ac, ic, from Old Irish oc, occ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ek/

Preposition

aig

1. At, by, near, close by.

   Tha am balach na laighe aig an taigh.‎ ― The boy is lying at the house.

   A bheil iad aig an taigh?‎ ― Are they at home?

2. In somebody's possession.

   Bha dithis mhac aig an duine.‎ ― The man had two sons.

3. On account of.

   aig meud aigheir‎ ― on account of his excessive joy

Usage notes

• Scottish Gaelic doesn't have a verb equivalent to English have: possession is expressed using the preposition aig.

  Tha càr ùr aig an teaghlach. ‎(“The family has a new car.”, literally “A new car is at the family.”)

• Aig combines with personal pronouns to form prepositional pronouns. See Derived forms below.
• The word aig and its derivates are also often used to express possession attributively instead of possessive pronouns:

  an taigh agam ‎(“my house”, literally “the house at me”)

Derived terms

• ag
• a'
• The following prepositional pronouns:

References

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
• A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Grant, John (1925), Edinburgh, compiled by Malcolm MacLennan
• “oc” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aika.

Noun

aig

1. time
2. age, era
3. (grammar) tense

Inflection

Derived terms

• keskaig
• kiruhaig
• kodvaig
• kokindaig
• kožmuzaig
• laps'aig
• märaig
• neidižaig
• nor'aig
• opalaig
• openduzaig
• prihaaig
• radandaig
• rat'kaig
• rigoaig
• varjoičendaig
• voz'aig
• aigbilet
• aigkeskust
• aigkirj
• aigkirjutez
• aigleht
• aigmär
• aigmäričez
• aigraha
• aigtego
• aigvozne
• aiganlugend
• aiganlugu
• aiganmänetand

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “время, эпоха”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Võro

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aika.

Noun

aig ‎(genitive ao, partitive aigo)

1. time
2. (grammar) tense

Inflection

Derived terms

• ollõvaig
• minnevaig