at

• (stressed) enPR: ăt, IPA^(key): /æt/

  • Audio (US):

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  • Homophone: @
  • Rhymes: -æt
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /ət/
  • Homophone: it (unstressed; only in some accents)

From Middle English at, from Old English æt (“at, near, by, toward”), from Proto-Germanic *at (“at, near, to”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“near, at”). Cognate with Scots at (“at”), North Frisian äät, äit, et, it (“at”), Danish at (“to”), Swedish åt (“for, toward”), Norwegian åt (“to”), Faroese at (“at, to, toward”), Icelandic að (“to, towards”), Gothic 𐌰𐍄 (at, “at”), Latin ad (“to, near”).

at

1. In, near, or in the general vicinity of (a particular place).

   Caesar was at Rome; a climate treaty was signed at Kyoto in 1997.

   I was at Jim’s house at the corner of Fourth Street and Vine.

   at the bottom of the page; sitting at the table; at church; at sea

   • 1919, Plutarch, “The Life of Cicero” in Parallel Lives, 43 (Bernadotte Perrin, trans.):

     Hirtius and Pansa, who were good men and admirers of Cicero, begged him not to desert them, and undertook to put down Antony if Cicero would remain at Rome.

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4:

     (b) sporophyte with foot reduced, the entire sporophyte enveloped by the calyptra, which is ± stipitate at the base.

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain):

     Today my friend Marsha is at her friend’s house.

   1. Attending (an educational institution).

      She's at Oxford University, studying chemistry.

   2. Working for (a company) or in (a place or situation).

      He used to be at Lehman Brothers. Now he's at Merrill Lynch.

      "Where does he work?" — "I think he's still at the solicitors."

   3. Indicating distance or direction relative to the speaker.

      Target at five miles. Prepare torpedoes.

      Look out! UFO at two o'clock!

2. Present or taking place during (an event).

   Was he at the meeting?

   There was a big fight at the class reunion.

3. Indicating time of occurrence, especially an instant of time, or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker’s perspective.

   at six o’clock; at dawn; at closing time; at the age of twelve; at night; at the moment

   • 1838, The Family Magazine:

     Lafayette was major-general in the American army at the age of 18 […]

   • 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:

     Other global taboos, such as sex and suicide, manifest themselves widely online, with websites offering suicide guides and Hot XXX Action seconds away at the click of a button. The UK government will come under pressure to block access to pornographic websites this year when a committee of MPs publishes its report on protecting children online.

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Hi, Anne. Are you busy? — Hi, Anna. Yes. At 10 a.m. I am writing.

   1. (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, especially finance) (also as at; before dates) On (a particular date).
      • n.d., quoted in Longmans Business Dictionary:

        balance as at 20th March 1999

4. In the direction of; towards; (often implied to be in a hostile or careless manner).

   Don’t just talk at someone; really listen to what they have to say.

   Stones were thrown at us, but we coudn't see who did.

   He shouted at her.

   She pointed at the curious animal.

   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly.
     Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan.
     “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

   • 2023 July 9, Barbie, spoken by Ken (Ryan Gosling):

     Come on in. I’ll play the guitar at you.

5. Indicating action bearing upon something, especially continued or repeated action.

   Don't pick at your food!

   My cat keeps scratching at the furniture.

   I was working at the problem all day.

6. In response or reaction to.

   At my request, they agreed to move us to another hotel.

   He jumped at the sudden noise.

   We laughed at the joke.

   She was mad at their comments.

7. Occupied in (activity).

   men at work; children at play

8. In a state of.

   The two countries are at war.

   She is at sixes and sevens with him.

   They are at loggerheads over how best to tackle the fiscal cliff.

9. Subject to.

   We hope that the event will go ahead, but we are at the whim of the weather.

   The city was at the mercy of the occupying forces.

11. Denotes a price.

    3 apples at 2¢ (each)

    The offer was at $30,000 before negotiations.

12. Indicates a position on a scale or in a series.

    Sell at $90.

    Tiger finished the round at tenth, seven strokes behind the leaders.

    I’m offering it—just to select customers—at cost.

    The river is at its highest in spring.

    These babies weigh in at ten tons apiece.

    at best; at most; at worst; at least

13. In certain phrases, used to indicate the manner in which something happens or is done.

    The car came towards me at speed.

    He spoke at great length on the topic.

    The winner will be chosen at random.

    • 2012, Sami Moubayed, Syria and the USA: Washington's Relations with Damascus, →ISBN:

      A few days later, on 1 October, King Hussein opened the Jordanian Parliament by speaking at length about the crisis in Syria,

14. Indicates a specific speed or rate that is maintained by something.

    We were cruising along at well over the speed limit of fifty miles per hour.

    It is growing at the rate of 3% a year.

15. Indicates a means or method.

    "How was the painting sold?" — "At auction."

    • 1995, Richard Klein, Cigarettes are Sublime, →ISBN, page 41:

      […] to be sold at auction for sixty gold francs.

16. (used for skills (including in activities) or areas of knowledge) On the subject of; regarding.

    The twins were both bad at chemistry.

    He slipped at marksmanship over his extended vacation.

    • 2015, Sanyan Stories: Favorites from a Ming Dynasty Collection, →ISBN, page 157:

      She’s good at playing musical instruments, singing and dancing, chess, calligraphy, and painting.

17. (Ireland, stressed pronunciation) Bothering, irritating, causing discomfort to
    • 1995 Keith Wood, quoted in David Hughes, "Wood odds-on to take one against the head", in The Independent (London) 18 January:

      I think ‘Jesus, my back is at me’. Then I get the ball. Off you go for 10 yards and you don’t feel a thing. Then you stop and think: ‘Jesus, it’s at me again’[.]

    • 2014 Marian Keyes "Antarctic Diary - Part 2" personal website (January 2014):

      He seems to be saying. “Ah, go on, you’re making the other lads feel bad.” But the 4th fella says, “No. Don’t be ‘at’ me. I’m just not in the form right now, I’ll stay where I am, thanks.”

18. Also used in various other idiomatic combinations: at a pinch, at all, at fault, at pains, at risk, at that, etc.; see the individual entries.

• He threw the ball to me — (so I could catch it).
• He threw the ball at me — (trying to hit me with it).

• He talked to her — (conversationally).
• He shouted at her — (aggressively).

at (plural ats)

2. The at sign (@).

• Can sometimes be used between square brackets in substitution of @ in emails
  • jon.smith[at]example.com or jon.smith [at] example.com

at (third-person singular simple present ats, present participle atting, simple past and past participle atted)

1. (informal, neologism) Rare form of @; to reply to or talk to someone, either online or face-to-face. (from the practice of targeting a message or reply to someone online by writing @name)
   • 2022, William Morris, Motley Vision:

     If you have questions or observations on my discussion questions, feel free to reply to this email, at me on Twitter, or comment on the companion post on AMV.

• Chiefly used in the phrase "don't @ me"/"don't at me". It can be used humorously when stated after an unpopular or ironic opinion, in order to forestall dissent.

at

1. (Northern England, rare, possibly obsolete) Alternative form of 'at (relative pronoun; reduced form of “that” and/or “what”).
   • 1860, Robert Gordon Latham, Song of Solomon, as spoken in Durham [by Thomas Moore], in A hand-book of the English language:

     Tak us t’ foxes, t’ little foxes at spoils t’ veynes: fer our veynes hev tender grapes.

at (plural ats or at)

1. Alternative form of att (Laos currency unit)

• “at”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• T&A, T.A., T/A, TA, ta

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آت (at, “horse”).^[1][2]

át m (plural atllárë, definite áti)

1. saddle horse, steed

   Near-synonyms: kálë, hamshór

2. (figurative) strong hard-working man

   Synonym: farán

• “at”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[2], 1980
• Jungg, G. (1895) “at”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 2*

• IPA^(key): /ɑt/

• Audio (Baku):

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From Proto-Turkic *at (“horse”).^[1]

at (definite accusative atı, plural atlar)

1. horse
2. (chess) knight

Chess pieces in Azerbaijani · şahmat fiqurları (layout · text)
şah	vəzir	top	fil	at	piyada

• “at” in Obastan.com.

at

1. second-person singular imperative of atmaq

Borrowed from Tagalog at.

• IPA^(key): /ʔat/ [ʔat]

at (Basahan spelling ᜀᜆ᜔)

1. (Daet) and

   Synonyms: asin, saka, buda, sagkod, nan, tapos

at (inanimate)

1. water

at

1. boy

From Proto-Turkic *at.

at

1. horse

• “at”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

From Old Norse at. Cognate with Swedish att, Norwegian at. Probably from Proto-Germanic *þat, a demonstrative pronoun used as a conjunction; compare English that, German dass, Dutch dat.

• IPA^(key): /ad/, [æ(d̥)], [æ(t)]

at

1. that (introduces a noun clause functioning as the subject, object or predicative of a verb, or as the object of a prepositional phrase)
   • 1986, Knud Erik Larsen, Bare ikke om søndagen‎^[3]:

     Knud hørte, at bedstefaren lagde værktøjet fra sig

     Knud heard that his grandfather put down the tool.

   • 1876, J.P. Jacobsen, Fru Marie Grubbe‎^[4], volume 1, page 67:

     Hun var overbevist om at det var sandt.

     She was convinced that it was true.

2. (archaic) that, in order that, so that (introduces an adverbial clause stating the purpose)
   • 1856, Christian Winther, Hr. Peder Jernskjæg, from Hjortens Flugt / https://kalliope.org/da/text/winther2018100610:

     Og Hjorten vil jeg fange, | At Korset jeg kan faae.

     And the deer, I will catch, that I may win the cross.

   • 1987, Thomas Bruun, Et paradisisk blik. Humoresker og grotesker:

     det er helvedes svært, at du bare ved det.

     it is damned difficult, just that you know it.

   Synonym: for at

3. that, so that (introduces an adverbial clause stating the result, normally after a demonstrative adverb or pronoun)
   • 1902, Karin Michaëlis, Barnet‎^[5]:

     Jeg er saa fattig, at jeg sulter paa Sjæl og Legeme.

     I am so poor that I starve in my soul and my body.

   Synonyms: så at, således at

4. that, why (introducing an independent clause, expressing passion, surprise, anger, or joy)
   • 1901, Herman Bang, Det graa Hus‎^[6]:

     At De kan synge saa tidligt om Morgenen.

     That you can sing that early in the morning.

5. (proscribed) added pleonastically to other conjunctions: fordi at, hvis at, når at
   • 2009, Frank Colding, Sejleren, p. 32 / https://books.google.dk/books?id=HCNperkZeKIC&pg=PA32:

     Forbavset aner min forstand, | at denne scenes sære magt | kun begribes, hvis at man | bevæger sig i dansetakt.

     Astonished, my mind senses that the strange power of this scene can only be understood if one moves in dance steps.

• “at,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “at,1” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

From Old Norse at, cognate with Swedish att, Norwegian å. Originally the same word as the preposition Old Norse at (“at, to”), from Proto-Germanic *at, cognate with English at. Doublet of ad). In the West Germanic languages, a different preposition, *tō (“to”), serves as the infinitive marker, cf English to, German zu, Dutch te.

• IPA^(key): [ʌ], [ɒ̽]
• (at the beginning of a sentence) IPA^(key): [ʌ], [ɒ̽], /ad/, [æt]
• Homophone: og

at

1. to (infinitive-marker, obligatory when the infinitive functions as noun phrase or an adverbial phrase, but omitted when it is governed by a modal verb)

   Det er menneskeligt at fejle.

   It is human to fail.

2. introducing an adverb of direction after a phrase that normally governs an infinitive (which may be understood elliptically)
   • 1992, Thøger Birkeland, Bette Nielses krig:

     Mon de da ikke snart skulle til at hjemad!

     Aren't they going to go home soon!

• “at,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “at,2” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

• IPA^(key): /ɑt/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɑt

at

1. singular past indicative of eten
2. inflection of atten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

at

1. water

at

1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of ꜥt.

• IPA^(key): /ɛaːʰt/
• Rhymes: -ɛaːʰt
• Homophone: æt

From Old Norse at.

at

1. at, towards, to [with dative]

From Old Norse at (“that”), from Proto-Germanic *þat (“that”). Cognate with Middle English at (“that”, conjunction and relative pronoun), Scots at (“that”, conjunction and relative pronoun). More at that.

at

1. that

From Old Norse at (“at, to”), from Proto-Germanic *at (“at, to”). More at at.

at

1. to A particle used to mark the following verb as an infinitive.

   At lyfta. ― To lift

From Latin actus. Cognate with Italian atto.

at m (plural ats)

1. act, action, deed

• azion

Borrowed from English at.

• IPA^(key): /ɛt/

at n (strong, genitive at, plural ats)

1. at, at-sign

   Synonyms: at-Zeichen, Klammeraffe

at

1. (dated, physics) Symbol for technische Atmosphäre, a non-SI unit of pressure used until 1978.

   Coordinate terms: atü, Pascal

• “at” in Duden online
• “at” in Duden online
• “at” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

at

1. romanization of 𐌰𐍄

For pronunciation and definitions of at – see 遏 (“to snap something off; to break something; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 遏).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /aːt/
• Rhymes: -aːt

at n (genitive singular ats, nominative plural öt)

1. fight

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /ɑt̪ˠ/^[1]
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /at̪ˠ/, [aːt̪ˠ]^[2]
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /at̪ˠ/^[3]

From Old Irish att (“swelling, protuberance, tumour”).^[4]

at m (genitive singular as substantive ait, genitive as verbal noun ata, nominative plural atanna)

1. swelling
   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 11:

     tā at ə l̄āv m inīnə.

     [Tá at i lámh m’iníne.]

     My daughter has a swelling on her hand.

   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 11:

     tā šȧxt n-at i n-ə wunāl.

     [Tá seacht n-at ina mhuineál.]

     He has seven swellings on his neck.

   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 11:

     kiŕ də lāv ə n̄-isḱə leš n̥ t-at ə wȳlū.

     [Cuir do lámh in uisce leis an t-at a maolú.]

     Put your hand in water to reduce the swelling.

2. verbal noun of at

From Old Irish attaid (“swells, dilates, increases”, verb), from att (“swelling, protuberance, tumour”).^[5]

at (present atann, future atfaidh, verbal noun at, past participle ata)

1. (intransitive) swell

   Synonym: borr

   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 11:

     tā ə h-ēdn̥ atī.

     [Tá a héadan ataithe.]

     Her face is swollen.

   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 11:

     tā mə lāv atī.

     [Tá mo lámh ataithe.]

     My hand is swollen.

2. (intransitive) bloat
3. (intransitive, of sea) heave

• Alternative past participle: ataithe

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “at”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “at”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 63; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “ataim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 63; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• “at”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

Compare Pangasinan ta and tan, Remontado Agta at, Tagalog at, Malay dan, Indonesian dan, Hawaiian a.

• IPA^(key): /ˈat/ [ˈät]

at

1. and

   Synonyms: saka, ampo, atsaka, pati, mo, man

   Pakibilisan at bawal mabagal.

   Do it faster and stop being slow.

at

1. with

   Mapagpasubuk at alang pamagkakelanganan.

   to be a challenger with no hesitations.

From Latin actus.

at m (plural ac)

1. act
2. action
3. work

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈat]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈat̪]

From Proto-Italic *ati, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éti.

at

1. introduces a different but not completely opposing thought: but, yet, moreover, on the other hand, on the contrary, still
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.1:

     At rēgīna [...].

     But the Queen [...].
     (This phrase, which begins Book 4, recurs twice more to begin subsections within the book: cf. 4.296, 4.504.)

2. whereas

• ast
• sed
• tamen (postpositive)

• atquī

Alternative spelling of ad. See aliquit#Etymology.

at (+ accusative)

1. alternative spelling of ad (“towards, to”)
   • 1490 – 1500, Iovianus Pontanus, Hendecasyllaborum seu Baiarum libri duo 1.30.26:

     At te balneolae tuae bearunt,

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• "at", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "at", in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "at", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

• attõ, āt, ātõ

at

1. third-person plural present indicative of vȱlda

From Old English æt, from Proto-Germanic *at, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd.

• et, ed

at

1. at

• English: at
• Scots: at
• Yola: adh, ad

• “at, prep.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old Norse at.

at

1. (Northern, northern East Midlands) to (infinitive-marker)

• “at, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

at (Föhr-Amrum)

1. the (feminine and neuter definite article, reduced form)

   Coordinate term: (full form) det

• The article form at can be used with all feminine and neuter nouns. However, some original feminines may still take the older form a (otherwise now restricted to masculines). This group of feminines consists of a limited number of everyday words, including those for relatives, body parts and items of clothing. The article a is used with these especially in a possessive sense. For example: Hi hee a hun breegen. (“He broke the [i.e. his] hand.”)

• e, et (Mooring)

at (Föhr-Amrum)

1. Reduced form of hat (“it”, subject)
2. Reduced form of ham (“it”, object)

• The form at is always unstressed, but not necessarily enclitic like other reduced forms.

• 't (enclitic)
• et (Mooring, Sylt)

From Old Frisian *jit, from Proto-West Germanic *jit (“you two”). Regarding the Sylt Frisian forms at (“the two of you”) versus jat (“the two of them”), it is clear that jat became at some point associated with ja, jam, jaar (“they, them, their”). For a while jat must have had both senses, which was facilitated by the general overlap between second-person and third-person plural forms in North Frisian; compare jam, which means “them” on Sylt, “you [plural]” on Föhr and Amrum, and both of these in Mooring Frisian. The form at may have been originally an enclitic byform of jat, or may have been backformed later to reintroduce a distinction between second and third person.

at (Sylt, dated)

1. you two, the two of you (second-person dual personal pronoun)

• jat (Föhr-Amrum, Mooring, both obsolete)

From Old Norse at. Cognate with Danish at and Swedish att.

• IPA^(key): /at/, [ɑt]

at

1. that

“at” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse at. Cognate with Danish at and Swedish att.

• IPA^(key): /ɑtː/
• Homophone: att

at

1. that

“at” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• it (second-person singular)
• ata (third-person plural relative)

• (second-person singular): IPA^(key): /at/
• (third-person plural relative): IPA^(key): /ad/

at

1. inflection of is:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person plural present indicative relative

From Proto-Germanic *atą. Related to Old Norse etja.

at n (genitive ats, plural ǫt)

1. conflict, fight, battle

• Icelandic: at

From Proto-Germanic *þat (“that”). Cognate with Old English þæt, Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐍄𐌰 (þata). Doublet of þat; for similar loss of þ- compare an from Proto-Germanic *þan.

at

2. that
3. since, because, as

From Proto-Germanic *at (“at, to”). Cognate with Old English æt, Old Frisian et, Old Saxon at, Old High German az, Gothic 𐌰𐍄 (at).

at

1. to (infinitive particle)

at

1. at, to [with dative]
2. according to [with dative]

   at heiðnum lǫgum

   according to heathen law

3. from, when acquiring something [with dative]

   hann þá mjǫð at goðum

   he received mead from the gods

   ek nam frǿði at Snorra

   I learned wisdom from Snorri

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “at”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From earlier apt, from Proto-Norse ᚨᚠᛏᛖᚱ (after), ᛡᚠᚨᛏᛉ (ᴀfatʀ /⁠afᵃtr⁠/). Related to eptir, ept.

at

1. after, following, in memory of [with accusative]
   • Hávamál

   sjaldan bautarsteinar · standa brautu nær
   nema reisi niðr at nið

   menhirs [do] seldom stand near the road, unless a kinsman raise one in memory of a kinsman

   • Grágás

     sonr á at taka arf at fǫður sinn

     the son ought to take inheritance after his father

From Proto-Nahuan *aatl, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa-ta. Compare Classical Nahuatl ātl (“water”).

• IPA^(key): /at/

at (plural ahat)

1. water

   Xiconi chopi at

   Drink some water

2. rain

   Axcan huetzi at

   Today it's raining

3. river

   Nemi ne tacat itempan ne at

   The man is on the riverbank

From Proto-Khasian *ʔa:t, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *as ~ ʔəs. Cognate with Khasi at, Riang [Sak] ʔas¹, Nyaheun ʔaːjh, Pacoh ayh, Semai as.

• IPA^(key): /at/

at

1. to swell

From Proto-Nahuan *aatl, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa-ta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈat/

at

1. water

• Boas, Franz (July 1917) “El Dialecto mexicano de Pochutla, Oaxaca”, in International Journal of American Linguistics (in Spanish), volume 1, number 1, →DOI, →JSTOR, pages 9–44
• Knab, Tim (July 1980) “When is a language really dead: The case of Pochutec”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 46, number 3, →DOI, →JSTOR, pages 230–233

From Proto-Turkic *at.

• (Xunhua, Hualong, Qinghai) IPA^(key): [ˀɑ̥tʰ]^[1][2][3]
• (Ili, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): /ɑtʰ/^[4]

at

1. horse

• Potanin, G.N. (1893) “ат”, in Тангутско-Тибетская окраина Китая и Центральная Монголия (in Russian), page 428
• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “at”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 296
• 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985) “at”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎^[7], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 5
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “at”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎^[8], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 47
• Dwyer, Arienne M. (2007) “at”, in Salar: A Study in Inner Asian Language Contact Processes: Part I: Phonology‎^[9], 1st edition, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 45, 106, 180
• Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “at”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 22
• She, Xiu Cun (2015) “at”, in 撒拉语语音研究 [Kunlun academic Series: Salar Phonetic Research]‎^[10], China: 上海大学出版社, →ISBN, pages 44, 292
• 马伟 (Ma Wei), 朝克 (Chao Ke) (2016) “at”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 国家社会科学基金项目 (National Social Science Foundation Project), page 263

at

1. at

at

1. (especially Black Isle) what
2. that (which)

• 2018, Robert McColl Millar, Modern Scots: An Analytical Survey, pages 13-14:

  [The] Scots dialects of the Black Isle, a promontory to the north of Inverness, were largely confined to two villages, Cromarty and Avoch, which are not fully connected to the North- East Scots- speaking regions to the east of Inverness […] The Black Isle dialects (North Northern B) shared much with their Caithness equivalents. With one feature, however, they stood alone, not only in the North or even Scotland, but in the English-speaking world. […] the <wh> words were not replaced by /f/, as is the case with the other Northern dialects, but by nothing. The Scots equivalent to English what, which is fit or fat in the rest of the Scots-speaking North, was at in Cromarty and Avoch. […] a good case could be made for the last speaker of archetypically 'Black Isle Scots' dying in 2012.

From Old Irish att.

at m

1. swelling, tumour
2. protuberance, prominence

From Old Irish attaid (“swells, dilates, increases”, verb), from att (“swelling, protuberance, tumour”).

at (past dh'at, future ataidh, verbal noun at or atadh, past participle athte)

1. swell, fester, puff up, become tumid
2. swell, as in the sea

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “at”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[11], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “att”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “attaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

at

1. four

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آت (at).

at m anim (Cyrillic spelling ат)

1. steed
2. Arabian (horse)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

at

1. four

• 't — after words ending with vowel

Compare Pangasinan ta (“because”) and tan (“and”), and Remontado Agta at (“and; because”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔat/ [ʔɐt̪̚]
• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: at

at (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜆ᜔)

1. and

   Synonyms: saka, pati

2. as; for; because

   Synonyms: dahil, kasi

   Bilisan mo at ako'y aalis na.

   Do it faster, as I'm leaving soon.

• ta

• IPA^(key): [ʔʌ̀tʰ]

at

1. fourth-person non-human object pronoun (roughly equivalent to "something")
2. fourth-person non-human possessive pronoun (roughly equivalent to "something's")

An apocopated form of ate (“id”)

at

1. away

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “at”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 9

From English heart.

at

1. heart

• IPA^(key): /ɑt/

• Audio:

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From Ottoman Turkish آت (at, “horse”), from Proto-Turkic *at, *ăt (“horse”). Cognate with Karakhanid اَتْ (at, “horse”), Old Turkic 𐱃 (t¹ /⁠at⁠/, “horse”).

at (definite accusative atı, plural atlar)

1. horse

   Synonyms: beygir, düldül

2. (chess) knight

Chess pieces in Turkish · satranç taşları (see also: satranç) (layout · text)
şah	vezir	kale	fil	at	piyon

at

1. second-person singular imperative of atmak

• “at”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

Other scripts
Latin	at‍
Cyrillic	ат‍
Arabic	آت

From Proto-Turkic *at, *ăt (“horse”).

• IPA^(key): /ɑt/

at (definite accusative aty, plural atlar)

1. horse

Other scripts
Latin	at‍
Cyrillic	ат‍
Arabic	آد

From Proto-Turkic *āt (“name”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰀𐱃 (at¹, “name”), Chuvash ят (jat, “name”), Turkish ad.

• IPA^(key): /ɑːt/

āt (definite accusative ādy, plural ātlar)

1. name

• “at” in Enedilim.com
• “at” in Webonary.org

at

1. (demonstrative) this
   • 1931, Arie de Jong, Gramat Volapüka, § 256:

     Kaf at binon naudodik.

     This coffee is disgusting.

Cognate with Yagnobi ашт (ašt).

at

1. eight

Variant of Old Welsh ad (alongside the now-obsolete add), from Proto-Celtic *ad, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd.

• IPA^(key): /at/
• Rhymes: -at

at (triggers soft mutation)

1. to, towards
2. for
3. at
4. by

• At is often used to indicate direction "to" a person in contrast to i, which indicates direction "to" a place or "(in order) to" do an action.
  • Dw i'n mynd at y meddyg. ― I'm going to the doctor.
    • but with a place: Dw i'n mynd i'r feddygfa. ― I'm going to the surgery.
    • and also before a verb: Dw i'n mynd i weld y meddyg. ― I'm going to see the doctor.
  • Wnaeth hi anfon llythyr at Megan. ― She sent a letter to Megan.
    • but with a place: Wnaeth hi anfon llythyr i Gaerdydd. ― She sent a letter to Cardiff.
    • and also before a verb: Oedd hi'n mynd i anfon llythyr. ― She was going to send a letter.

See oddi wrth for a similar distinction for "from".

• agos atoch (“friendly, intimate”)
• hyd at
• tuag at (“towards”)
• Category:Welsh phrasal verbs formed with "at"

• IPA^(key): /ɔt/

at

1. if

   Synonym: as

• “at”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

• IPA^(key): /at̪/

at

1. man
2. male
3. husband

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[12], Pacific linguistics

• Audio:

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at (definite form at mi)

1. year

From Middle English that, thet, yat, from Old English þæt, from Proto-Germanic *þat.

• et, thet, that, th', y'at

• IPA^(key): /at/, /ɛt/, /ðɛt/, /ðat/, /ð/, /jat/

at

1. that, which
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 84:

     At by mizluck was ee-pit t'drive in.

     Who by misluck was placed to drive in.

   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 86:

     At aar errone was var ameing 'ar 'ngish ee-height.

     That their errand was aiming to bring anguish upon them.

   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 13, page 90:

     He at nouth fade t'zey, llean vetch ee man,

     He that knows what to say, mischief fetch the man,

   • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 100:

     At ye mye ne'er be wooveless ta vill a lear jock an cooan.

     That you may never be unprovided to fill an empty jack and can.

   • 1867, “THE BRIDE'S PORTION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 102:

     Dhree brailès o' beanès, an a keow at was yole,

     Three barrels of beans, and a cow that was old,

• 'twode

From Middle English eten, from Old English etan, from Proto-West Germanic *etan. Cognate with Scots ait (“to eat”).

• ayth, eight

• IPA^(key): /at/, /eːt̪/, /eːt/
• Homophone: ayght

at (second-person singular eighthest, present participle atheen)

1. to eat
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Ich at mee dhree meales.

     I ate my three meals.

• 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 23