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See also: ain't
English
[edit]Contraction
[edit]aint
- (informal, nonstandard) Alternative form of ain't
Anagrams
[edit]Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]aint f (genitive singular ainte, nominative plural ainteanna)
Declension
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Coordinate terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
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| aint | n-aint | haint | not applicable |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aint”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Scots
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from Old Norse enta (“to regard, heed, notice, look after”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]aint (third-person singular simple present aints, present participle aintin, simple past aintit, past participle aintit)
- (Orkney) to tend, heed, look after someone
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “aint, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
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