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ait

[ eyt ]

noun

British Dialect.
  1. a small island, especially a braid bar.


ait

/ ɪ /

noun

  1. dialect.
    an islet, esp in a river
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of ait1

First recorded before 900; Middle English eyt, Old English ̄ٳ, diminutive of ieg, īg “island,” cognate with Middle Low German ō, ōge, ou(we), Old High German ouwa, Old Norse ey; island
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of ait1

Old English ӯٳ small island, from ieg island
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Another, Aomar Ait Khedache, will be up on Wednesday - but he is now nearly deaf and mute and will have to write his answers down on a piece of paper.

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Abbas and a 68-year-old man, Aomar Ait Khedache, have confessed; the others have not.

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Police arrested Abbas and several other people in January 2017 and later confirmed that they had been under surveillance for several weeks, after DNA traces left at the scene provided a match with Aomar Ait Khedache, also known as "Omar the Old".

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Greene has previously served as deputy head of AIT, as well as at the missions in Tokyo and held various roles in Washington, largely focused on economic relations.

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That’s sowed resentment as the weather grows colder, laid-off miner Ait Brahim Brahim said in Anerni, a pastoral mountainside village where 36 people died.

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