eachmairt

Irish

Etymology

PIE word
*h₁éḱwos

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaxməɾʲtʲ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /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, 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
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with 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.

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