aio

Etymology
Attested since circa 1300. Either from the feminine, itself supposedly from , or from. Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  tutor, governor of a child

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  tutor, teacher

Etymology
From, from , from.

Cognate with, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬. See also.

Verb

 * 1) to say, speak, assert, say “yes”, affirm
 * 2) to say, argue
 * 1) to say, argue
 * 1) to say, argue
 * 1) to say, argue
 * 1) to say, argue
 * 1) to say, argue
 * 1) to say, argue

Usage notes

 * Often spelt āiō, etc. with long ā before consonantal i, especially in older editions, even though the a 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 by Cicero among others, who wrote AIIO, AIIUNT, AIIEBANT, as well as MAIIOR, EIIUS , etc. Other writers and makers of inscriptions used the ī longa (tall I), e.g. AꟾO, EꟾUS, or even a combination AIꟾO, EIꟾUS.
 * 3rd-person singular ait, 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 long ī, including before final t, can be found in Plautus, e.g. aīs, aīt, later undergoing iambic shortening.
 * Also in Plautus can be found diphthongal forms such as a͡is (one syllable), a͡it (one syllable), a͡ibam/a͡ibās/a͡ibāt (two syllables), etc.
 * ait is also used in past narration; through its reinterpretation as a perfect-tense form, aistī is found post-Classically.

Adverb

 * 1) yesterday
 * 2) * 1977, Mokilese Reference Grammar
 * "mkj"

- Ngoah dupukda raisso aio.

Adverb

 * 1) yesterday
 * Likamwete e kohdo aio.
 * Apparently he came yesterday.

Etymology
Probably from, masculinized from , whence Portuguese.

Noun

 * 1) a hired tutor

Alternative forms

 * (Èkìtì, Owé)
 * (Ọ̀wọ̀)

Noun

 * 1)  chameleon