eachmairt

Irish

PIE word
*h₁éḱwos

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

eachmairt f (genitive singular eachmairte)

copulation (between horses)
heat (condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile) (in mares)
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 22:
  tā ȧxmŕ̥c əŕ ə l̄āŕ. tā n l̄āŕ fȳ ȧxmŕ̥c.
  Tá eachmairt ar an láir./Tá an láir faoi eachmairt. (conventional orthography)
  The mare is in heat.

Declension of eachmairt

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)

Case	Singular
Nominative	an eachmairt
Genitive	na heachmairte
Dative	leis an eachmairt don eachmairt

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.

G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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

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