eachmairt

Irish

PIE word
*h₁éḱwos

From Middle Irish echmairt, a derived form of Old Irish ech (“horse”).^[1]

IPA^(key): /ˈaxmˠəɾˠtʲ/^[2]
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈaxmˠəɾˠtʲ/^[3], /ˈaxwəɾʲc/ (as if spelled eachmhairc)^[4]

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, 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 of eachmairt

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.

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 147, page 75
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 330, page 114
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 197, page 75