erchót

Old Irish

Alternative forms

erchoat

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈerxoːd]

Noun

erchót f or m

verbal noun of ar·coat: hindrance, hurt, ruin
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 61^c8
  Robu mou de int erchot huare ro·mbói intamail caratraid and.
  The greater was the hurt because there was a semblance of friendship in it.

Inflection

Thurneysen believed that this noun was neuter, and dismissed the Milan glosses' clear masculine paradigm (int erchót in Ml. 61c8) as an aberration triggered by an early loss of the neuter. In fact, erchót is feminine everywhere else, such as the Táin Bó Cúailnge and the Turin glosses on the Second Epistle of Peter.

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	erchót^L	—	—
Vocative	erchót^L	—	—
Accusative	erchóit^N	—	—
Genitive	erchóite^H	—	—
Dative	erchóit^L	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	erchót	—	—
Vocative	erchóit	—	—
Accusative	erchót^N	—	—
Genitive	erchóit^L	—	—
Dative	erchót^L	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Middle Irish: urchóit
- Irish: urchóid
- Scottish Gaelic: urchaid

Mutation

Mutation of *erchót*
radical	lenition	nasalization
erchót (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-erchót

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