eachtra

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish echtra,[2] from Old Irish echtar (“without, outside”), from Proto-Celtic *exteros. Compare Welsh eithr (“except, beyond”), Latin exter (“outer”).

Pronunciation

Noun

eachtra f or m (genitive singular eachtra, nominative plural eachtraí)

  1. episode, incident, affair, proceeding, event
  2. tale
  3. experience
  4. anecdote

Declension

As a feminine noun (standard):

Declension of eachtra (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative eachtra eachtraí
vocative a eachtra a eachtraí
genitive eachtra eachtraí
dative eachtra eachtraí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an eachtra na heachtraí
genitive na heachtra na n-eachtraí
dative leis an eachtra
don eachtra 		leis na heachtraí

As a masculine noun (nonstandard):

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

Synonyms

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of eachtra
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
eachtra n-eachtra heachtra t-eachtra

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

References

  1. ^ “eachtra”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “echtra”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 232, page 117
  4. ^ “eachtra”, in Irish Pronunciation Database, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

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