Scottish dialectal form meaning 'beyond' or 'farther on the other side of' something.
Scottish variant of 'ayond' or directly from Scots English adaptation of Old English 'geond' (beyond), with the 'a-' and '-t' formations typical of Scots.
Burns and other Scots poets used 'ayont' to capture authentic Highland speech—it's one of those words that immediately signals Scottish identity, preserved in dialect literature as a marker of cultural and linguistic distinctiveness.
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