eachmairt

Irish

Etymology
PIE word
*h₁éḱwos

From Middle Irish echmairt, a derived form of Old Irish ech (“horse”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈaxməɾʲtʲ/[2]
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈaxwəɾʲc/[3] (as if spelled eachmhairc)

Noun

eachmairt f (genitive singular eachmairte)

  1. copulation (between horses)
  2. heat (condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile) (in mares)
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 22:
      tā ȧxmŕ̥c əŕ ə l̄āŕ. tā n l̄āŕ fȳ ȧxmŕ̥c.
      [Tá eachmairt ar an láir./Tá an láir faoi eachmairt.]
      The mare is in heat.

Declension
Declension of eachmairt

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative eachmairt
Vocative a eachmairt
Genitive eachmairte
Dative eachmairt

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an eachmairt
Genitive na heachmairte
Dative leis an eachmairt

don eachmairt

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
eachmairt n-eachmairt heachmairt not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 75
  3. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 75

Further reading
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