ait

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Under the tall aspens of Brentford-ait, and on they swept, the white moon in their wake.

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  1. Middle English eit, from Old English īgeth, diminutive of īg, īeg, island; see island.

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  1. Little used in literature; also spelled aight, eyet, eyot, eyght, from Middle English eyt, æit (also in comp. eitlond and æitlond, an island), earlier *eyet, from Anglo-Saxon *ēget, a prob. variant of īge′ (found once in the Anglo-Saxon Charters), an ait, another form of the reg. (W. Saxon) īgoth, also spelled īgeoth, iggoth, iggath (*ēgath not found), an island, with suffix -oth, -ath, here apparently diminutive, from īg, variant ēg, an island, found in modern English only as the first element of i-land, now spelled improp, island, and as the final element (-ey, -ea, -y) in certain place-names: see island and ey.
 

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