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aiste
aiste
Irish
Noun
aiste f, m (genitive singular aiste, nominative plural aistí)
- quirk, peculiarity
- knack; odd talent
- manner, way
- state, condition
- (literary) essay, composition
- (poetry) metre, scansion
- pattern, scheme
Declension
Declension of aiste
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Etymology 2
Pronoun
aiste (emphatic aistese)
- Alternative form of aisti
Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
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| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| aiste | n-aiste | haiste | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
- "aiste" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- “aiste” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology 1
From Old Irish aiste (“characteristic, special quality, peculiarity; metre”), possibly from Latin essentia (“essence, being”).
Noun
aiste f
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation | |||
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| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| aiste | n-aiste | h-aiste | t-aiste |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
Etymology 2
From Middle Irish eiste, from Old Irish essi.
Pronoun
aiste
Derived terms
See also
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
- “aiste (‘metre’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.