See aiteann in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_links": [
[
"aiten",
"aiten#Old_Irish"
],
[
"*axtīnos",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/axtīnos"
],
[
"eithin",
"eithin#Welsh"
],
[
"*h₂eḱstis",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂eḱstis"
],
[
"aksti̇̀s",
"akstis#Lithuanian"
],
[
"ость",
"ость#Russian"
],
[
"*h₂eḱ-",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂eḱ-"
]
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},
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},
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},
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},
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},
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},
{
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"2": "ость",
"3": "",
"4": "awn, bristle"
},
"expansion": "Russian ость (ostʹ, “awn, bristle”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
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"form": "aitinn",
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"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "aitinn",
"head_nr": 1,
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "aitinne",
"head_nr": 2,
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "in Connacht and Ulster",
"head_nr": 2,
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "an t-aiteann",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "na haitinn",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "an aitinn",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "na n-aiteann",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "leis an aiteann",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "don aiteann",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "leis na haitinn",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "ga-mut",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "aiteann",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form"
]
},
{
"form": "n-aiteann",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"eclipsis"
]
},
{
"form": "haiteann",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form"
]
},
{
"form": "t-aiteann",
"source": "mutation",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form"
]
}
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},
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},
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},
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},
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"name": "Genisteae tribe plants",
"orig": "ga:Genisteae tribe plants",
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}
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{
"english": "tall furze",
"translation": "tall furze",
"word": "aiteann francach"
},
{
"english": "dwarf whin",
"translation": "dwarf whin",
"word": "aiteann gaelach"
},
{
"english": "tall furze",
"translation": "tall furze",
"word": "aiteann gallda"
},
{
"english": "dwarf whin",
"translation": "dwarf whin",
"word": "aiteann mín"
},
{
"english": "club moss",
"translation": "club moss",
"word": "aiteann Muire"
},
{
"english": "furze, gorse, whins (collective)",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"translation": "furze, gorse, whins (collective)",
"word": "aiteannach"
},
{
"english": "whinchat",
"translation": "whinchat",
"word": "caislín aitinn"
},
{
"english": "furze bush",
"translation": "furze bush",
"word": "scothán aitinn"
},
{
"english": "whin-bush",
"translation": "whin-bush",
"word": "tom aitinn"
},
{
"english": "whin-bush",
"translation": "whin-bush",
"word": "tor aitinn"
}
],
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],
"english": "Furze is growing in this field.",
"ref": "1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 31:",
"text": "tā æcn̥̄ ə fās sə ŋort šə.",
"translation": "Furze is growing in this field.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
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[
20,
25
]
],
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28,
33
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],
"english": "However sharp the holly is, furze is just as sharp.",
"ref": "1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 31:",
"text": "dā jēŕ n̥ køln̄, tā æcn̥̄ xō ǵēŕ leš.",
"translation": "However sharp the holly is, furze is just as sharp.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"furze, gorse, whin"
],
"head_nr": 2,
"id": "en-aiteann-ga-noun-Xryt3Xi7",
"links": [
[
"furze",
"furze"
],
[
"gorse",
"gorse"
],
[
"whin",
"whin"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈætʲən̪ˠ/",
"tags": [
"Aran"
]
}
],
"word": "aiteann"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"english": "tall furze",
"translation": "tall furze",
"word": "aiteann francach"
},
{
"english": "dwarf whin",
"translation": "dwarf whin",
"word": "aiteann gaelach"
},
{
"english": "tall furze",
"translation": "tall furze",
"word": "aiteann gallda"
},
{
"english": "dwarf whin",
"translation": "dwarf whin",
"word": "aiteann mín"
},
{
"english": "club moss",
"translation": "club moss",
"word": "aiteann Muire"
},
{
"english": "furze, gorse, whins (collective)",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"translation": "furze, gorse, whins (collective)",
"word": "aiteannach"
},
{
"english": "whinchat",
"translation": "whinchat",
"word": "caislín aitinn"
},
{
"english": "furze bush",
"translation": "furze bush",
"word": "scothán aitinn"
},
{
"english": "whin-bush",
"translation": "whin-bush",
"word": "tom aitinn"
},
{
"english": "whin-bush",
"translation": "whin-bush",
"word": "tor aitinn"
}
],
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"aiten",
"aiten#Old_Irish"
],
[
"*axtīnos",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/axtīnos"
],
[
"eithin",
"eithin#Welsh"
],
[
"*h₂eḱstis",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂eḱstis"
],
[
"aksti̇̀s",
"akstis#Lithuanian"
],
[
"ость",
"ость#Russian"
],
[
"*h₂eḱ-",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂eḱ-"
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"feminine"
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"nominative",
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]
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"source": "declension",
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"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
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"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
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"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
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"source": "declension",
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"dative",
"definite",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"definite",
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]
},
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"dative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
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"ref": "1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 31:",
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20,
25
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"ref": "1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 31:",
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}
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}
Download raw JSONL data for aiteann meaning in Irish (6.7kB)
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