aosta
See also: Aosta
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish áesta (“old, ancient”), from áes (“age, years; stage, period of life; lifetime; age of the world, era”); synchronically aois (“age”) + -ta.
Pronunciation
- (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈeːsˠt̪ˠə/
- (Connacht, Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈiːsˠt̪ˠə/
Adjective
aosta
- aged, old
Derived terms
- anaosta (“youthful”, adjective)
- aostach m (“old person”)
- aostacht f (“oldness; old age”)
- breacaosta (“fairly old”, adjective)
- bunaosta (“fairly old; middle-aged”, adjective)
- cianaosta (“long-lived, very old; pristine, primeval”, adjective)
- cnagaosta (“advanced in years, elderly”, adjective)
- comhaosta (“of the same age; contemporary, coeval”, 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
- "aosta" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “áesta”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN