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Irish
Etymology 1
From Old Irish echlach (“messenger, courier; attendant”).
Noun
eachlach m or f (genitive singular eachlaigh or eachlaí, nominative plural eachlaigh or eachlacha)
- courier
- attendant, messenger
- Synonyms: scéalaí, teachtaire
Declension
As masculine noun:
As feminine noun:
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle Irish echlach (“prostitute”), from Old Irish.
Noun
eachlach f (genitive singular eachlaí, nominative plural eachlacha)
- (literary) prostitute
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| eachlach
|
n-eachlach
|
heachlach
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t-eachlach
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “eachlach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “eachlach”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 echlach (‘messenger’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 echlach (‘prostitute’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “eachlach” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.