eachra

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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PIE word
*h₁éḱwos

From Middle Irish echrad.[1] By surface analysis, each (horse) +‎ -ra (collective suffix).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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eachra m (genitive singular eachra, nominative plural eachraí)

  1. (collective) horses
  2. (collective, military) cavalry, horse (cavalry soldiers)
    Synonym: marcra
  3. (collective) stable (all the racehorses belonging to a particular owner)
  4. (countable) a team of horses
  5. (countable, military) cavalcade

Declension

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
eachra n-eachra heachra t-eachra
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “echrad, echraid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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