eight

== Translingual == === Alternative forms === Eight, EIGHT === Etymology === Borrowed from English eight. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈei̯t] === Noun === eight (international standards) NATO & ICAO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit 8. Synonym: oktoeight (ITU/IMO) === References === == English == === Etymology 1 === From Middle English eighte, aught, eahte, ahte, from Old English eahta, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw. Cognate with Scots aucht (“eight”), West Frisian acht (“eight”), Dutch acht (“eight”), Low German acht (“eight”), German acht (“eight”), Norwegian åtte (“eight”), Swedish åtta (“eight”), Icelandic átta (“eight”), Latin octo (“eight”), Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ), Irish ocht (“eight”), among others. False cognate of Tamil எட்டு (eṭṭu), Malayalam എട്ട് (eṭṭŭ). ==== Alternative forms ==== aught (Scotland, archaic, rare) Arabic numerals: 8 Roman numerals: VIII ==== Pronunciation ==== enPR: āt (pane–pain merger), Rhymes: -eɪt (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /eɪt/ (North India) IPA(key): /eʈ/ (South India) IPA(key): /ɛ(j)ʈ/ Homophones: ait (general), ate, eyot (one pronunciation) ==== Numeral ==== eight A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine. Describing a group or set with eight elements. ===== Related terms ===== eighth ===== Descendants ===== Sranan Tongo: aiti ===== Translations ===== ===== See also ===== Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages ==== Noun ==== eight (plural eights) The digit/figure 8. (playing cards) Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight. (nautical) A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars. (rowing, especially in plural) A race in which such craft participate. (rowing) The eight people who crew a rowing-boat. Eight o'clock. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ===== See also ===== section 8 ==== Adjective ==== eight (not comparable) Obsolete spelling of eighth. === Etymology 2 === See ait. ==== Noun ==== eight (plural eights) Alternative spelling of ait (island in a river) ===== References ===== === Anagrams === Tighe == Middle English == === Numeral === eight alternative form of eighte == Yola == === Verb === eight alternative spelling of ayth (“to eat”) === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 38