eachmairt

Irish

Etymology

PIE word
*h₁éḱwos

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaxmˠəɾˠtʲ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈaxmˠəɾˠtʲ/, /ˈaxwəɾʲc/ (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 [The Aran Dialect], 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, no plural)

bare forms 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

Mutated forms of eachmairt

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
eachmairt	n-eachmairt	heachmairt	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “eaċmairt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 272
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “eachmairt”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN