eachlach

From Old Irish echlach (“messenger, courier; attendant”).

eachlach m or f (genitive singular eachlaigh or eachlaí, nominative plural eachlaigh or eachlacha)

1. courier
2. attendant, messenger

   Synonyms: scéalaí, teachtaire

As masculine noun:

As feminine noun:

• baneachlach (“female courier, messenger; horsewoman”)

From Middle Irish echlach (“prostitute”), from Old Irish.

eachlach f (genitive singular eachlaí, nominative plural eachlacha)

1. (literary) prostitute

• 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
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 echlach (‘messenger’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 echlach (‘prostitute’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “eachlach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm