aita

• IPA^(key): /aiˈta/

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aita

1. father

   Nire aitaren etxea / defendituko dut.

   My father's home / I will defend.

2. priest
3. autor

From Proto-Finnic *aita. Cognate with Karelian aidu, Estonian aed.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɑit̪ɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑitɑ
• Hyphenation: ai‧ta

aita

1. fence
2. (low) wall

• aidanne
• aidas
• aidata
• aidoittaa
• aituri

aita

1. third-person singular present indicative of aitare
2. second-person singular imperative of aitare

From Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kita.

aita

1. we (inclusive of the person spoken to)

From Proto-Baltic *aitā, from Proto-Indo-European *ey-, *oy- (“to go”) (cf. iet) with an extra syllable tā. The original meaning was thus “goer, one that goes (around),” a common source of words for “sheep” (cf. Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian баран (baran), a borrowing from Proto-Turkic *baran (“one that goes”)). An alternative theory, which derives aita from the diminutive avitiņa of dated avs (“sheep”) is less likely to be correct, since the avi > ai change would be irregular. Cognates include Lithuanian áita (feminine), áitas (“one who walks around a lot; restless person”) (masculine), Old Prussian aytegenis (“small (quick, restless) woodpecker”), Russian dialectal етенька (jetenʹka, “name used to call sheep”) (from *ěta- < *ait-), Hittite 𒇻 (iyant-, “sheep”) (lit. “goer, one that goes”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [àjta]

aita f (4th declension)

1. sheep (esp. Ovis aries; generic word)

   mājas aita ― domestic sheep

   aitu gans ― sheep herd (shepherd, person)

   aitu suns ― sheep dog (shepherd, dog breed)

   cirpt aitas ― to shear the sheep

The term aita is more frequent than avs, both as a generic and as the specific name of the female.

• auns
• teķis
• (dated term) avs
• jērs

From Proto-Slavic *otьcь, from Proto-Indo-European *átta.

aita

1. father

Borrowed from Basque aita.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaita/, [ˈai̯t̪a]

aita m (plural aitas)

1. (Spain, Basque Country, Navarre) dad

From Proto-Finnic *aita.

aita (genitive aďďaa, partitive [please provide])

1. garden

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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