echlach

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish echlach.

Noun

echlach f (ā-stem, genitive singular echlaige, nominative plural echlacha)

1. messenger, courier; attendant
2. prostitute

Descendants

• Irish: eachlach

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
echlach	unchanged	n-echlach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 echlach (‘messenger’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 echlach (‘prostitute’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Old Irish

Etymology

From echall +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈexlax/

Noun

echlach f (genitive echlaige, nominative plural echlacha)

1. messenger, courier; attendant

Inflection

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

Descendants

• Middle Irish: echlach
  • Irish: eachlach

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
echlach (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-echlach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 echlach (‘messenger’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language