eachra

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

PIE word
*h₁éḱwos

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaxɾˠə/

Noun

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

Declension of eachra (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative eachra eachraí
vocative a eachra a eachraí
genitive eachra eachraí
dative eachra eachraí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-eachra na heachraí
genitive an eachra na n-eachraí
dative leis an eachra
don eachra 		leis na heachraí

Mutation

Mutated forms of eachra
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
eachra n-eachra heachra t-eachra

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  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

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