Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ayo”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
Sospeaks [Iris], and with her right hand she cuts the lock of hair [from Dido’s head]. (“Sic ait” in the Aeneid: cf. 1.142, 2.296, 3.189, 5.365, 9.749, 11.520.)
Often speltāiō, etc. with longā before consonantali, especially in older editions, even though thea is in fact short. This is to mark the syllable as long by position due to the regularly-double morpheme-internal/j/, which is normally spelt as single in modern editions.
The full spelling is said to have been used byCicero among others, who wroteaiio,aiiunt,aiiebant, as well asmaiior (maior),eiius (eius), etc. Other writers and makers of inscriptions used theī longa (tall I), e.g.AꟾO,EꟾUS, or even a combinationAIꟾO,EIꟾUS.
3rd-person singularait, the most common form, is normally attested as a disyllabic with two light syllables, that is[ˈa.ɪt], not[ˈaj.jɪt] with a first heavy syllable.
The original forms with longī, including before finalt, can be found inPlautus, e.g.aīs,aīt, later undergoing iambic shortening.
Also inPlautus can be found diphthongal forms such asa͡is (one syllable),a͡it (one syllable),a͡ibam,a͡ibās,a͡ibāt (two syllables), etc.
ait is also used in past narration, and through its reinterpretation as a perfect-tense form,aistī is found post-Classically.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
to do a thing which is not one's vocation, which goes against the grain:adversante et repugnante natura orinvitā Minervā (ut aiunt) aliquid facere (Off. 1. 31. 110)
as the proverb says:ut orquod orquomodo aiunt, ut orquemadmodum dicitur
(ambiguous) as Homer sings (notcanit):ut ait Homerus
(ambiguous) as Cicero says:ut ait Cicero (always in this order)
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Firchow, Irwin, Firchow, Jacqueline, Akoitai, David (1973)Vocabulary of Rotokas - Pidgin - English[3], Ukarumpa:Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 3
