toit

English

Noun

toit (plural toits)

1. (UK, dialect) A cushion.

Anagrams

• Tito

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin tectum.

Noun

toit m (plural toits)

1. roof

Estonian

Etymology

Derived from toitma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tˈoi̯t/

Noun

toit (genitive toidu, partitive toitu)

1. food

Declension

Declension of toit (ÕS type 22e/riik, t-d gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		toit	toidud
accusative	nom.
	gen.	toidu
genitive			toitude
partitive		toitu	toite toitusid
illative		toitu toidusse	toitudesse toidesse
inessive		toidus	toitudes toides
elative		toidust	toitudest toidest
allative		toidule	toitudele toidele
adessive		toidul	toitudel toidel
ablative		toidult	toitudelt toidelt
translative		toiduks	toitudeks toideks
terminative		toiduni	toitudeni
essive		toiduna	toitudena
abessive		toiduta	toitudeta
comitative		toiduga	toitudega

Derived terms

• kiirtoit
• koeratoit
• magustoit
• toitaine
• toitma
• toituma

Further reading

• toit in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “toit”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “toit”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN

Finnish

Verb

toit

1. second-person singular past indicative of tuoda

Anagrams

• otit, otti, toti

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French toit, teit, from Latin tēctum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twa/

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• Homophones: toi, toits (general), toua, touas, touât (one pronunciation)

Noun

toit m (plural toits)

1. roof
   • 1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, chapter III, in Le petit prince [The Little Prince], New York: Reynal & Hitchcock:

     Si vous dites aux grandes personnes : « J’ai vu une belle maison en briques roses, avec des géraniums aux fenêtres et des colombes sur le toit... » elles ne parviennent pas à s’imaginer cette maison. Il faut leur dire : « J’ai vu une maison de cent mille francs. » Alors elles s’écrient : « Comme c’est joli ! »

     If you tell grown-ups: “I saw a beautiful house made of pink bricks, with geraniums in the windows and doves on the roof...” they cannot imagine what that house would look like. You have to tell them: “I saw a house worth a hundred thousand francs.” Then they exclaim: “How pretty that house is!”

Derived terms

• crier sur les toits
• toit ouvrant

Further reading

• “toit”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Irish

Etymology

A variant of Middle Irish tútt (“stench”); compare Scottish Gaelic toit.

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɔtʲ/

Noun

toit f (genitive singular toite, nominative plural toiteanna)

1. smoke

   Proverb: An áit a mbíonn toit bíonn tine. ― Where there's smoke, there's fire.

   Níl sa saol ach gaoth agus toit. ― The world is only wind and smoke.

2. vapour, steam

   Proverb: Níl sa saol ach gaoth is toit. ― Life is only wind and vapour.

3. (familiar) batch of shellfish, piece of meat, etc., roasted on embers

Declension

Declension of toit (second declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative toit toiteanna vocative a thoit a thoiteanna genitive toite toiteanna dative toit toiteanna forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an toit na toiteanna genitive na toite na dtoiteanna dative leis an toit don toit leis na toiteanna

Derived terms

• dubh le toit (“smoke-begrimed”)
• toit a chaitheamh (“to have a smoke”)
• toit is tormán (“sound and fury”)
• toitcheo (“smog”)
• toiteach, toitiúil (“smoky”, adjective)
• toitghinteach (“smoke-producing”, adjective)
• toitín (“cigarette”)

Related terms

• toiteachán m (“smoke-hole, chimney”)
• toitrigh (“smoke, fumigate”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of toit

radical	lenition	eclipsis
toit	thoit	dtoit

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “toit”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Old French

Etymology

Earlier teit, from Latin tēctum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoi̯t/

Noun

toit oblique singular, m (oblique plural toiz or toitz, nominative singular toiz or toitz, nominative plural toit)

1. roof

Descendants

• French: toit

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

A variant of Middle Irish tútt (“stench”), from Proto-Celtic *tutto, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“hazy, dark”); compare Irish toit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪ʰɔhtʲ/

Noun

toit f (genitive singular toite, plural toitean)

1. steam
2. (Benbecula, South Uist, Eriskay, Barra, Tiree, Islay) smoke

   Synonyms: ceò, deathach

3. cloud (of smoke)

Mutation

Mutation of toit

radical	lenition
toit	thoit

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.