eite
- partitive/illativesingular ofeit
FromOld Irishette.
eite f (genitive singulareite,nominative pluraleitíoreiteadha)
- wing(of bird; of army)
- pinion; wingfeather
- fin(of a fish, etc.)
- (zoology)pinnule
- (surveying)vane
- wing-likeattachment
- (politics) wing
- aneite chlé ―the left wing
Alternative plural form:eiteadha(Aran)
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “eite”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “eite”, inEnglish-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- Finck, F. N. (1899)Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page91
- “eite”, inNew English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge,2013-2025
eite
- adverbialbūdinysparticiple ofeiti
FromProto-Italic*eite(second-personpluralactiveimperative of*eō). Cognate toLatinīte.
eite
- togo,second-personpluralactiveimperative ofeō