erchót

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• erchoat

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈerxoːd]

Noun

erchót f or m

1. verbal noun of ar·coat: hindrance, hurt, ruin
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 61^c8

     Robu mou de int erchot huare ro·mbói intamail caratraid and.

     The greater was the hurt because there was a semblance of friendship in it.

Inflection

Thurneysen believed that this noun was neuter, and dismissed the Milan glosses' clear masculine paradigm (int erchót in Ml. 61c8) as an aberration triggered by an early loss of the neuter. In fact, erchót is feminine everywhere else, such as the Táin Bó Cúailnge and the Turin glosses on the Second Epistle of Peter.

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	erchótL	—	—
Vocative	erchótL	—	—
Accusative	erchóitN	—	—
Genitive	erchóiteH	—	—
Dative	erchóitL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	erchót	—	—
Vocative	erchóit	—	—
Accusative	erchótN	—	—
Genitive	erchóitL	—	—
Dative	erchótL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: urchóit
  • Irish: urchóid
  • Scottish Gaelic: urchaid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
erchót	unchanged	n-erchót
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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