aireachas

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish airechas (“heed, care”). By surface analysis, aireach (“careful, attentive; vigilant”) +‎ -as (abstract nominal suffix), from aire (“care, attention; heed, notice”).

Noun

aireachas m (genitive singular aireachais)

1. attention
2. vigilance
3. (as verbal noun, ag aireachas) watching

Alternative forms

• aireachán m

Etymology 2

Noun

aireachas m (genitive singular aireachais)

1. Alternative form of oireachas (“precedence, pre-eminence, sovereignty; rank, status”)

Declension

Declension of aireachas

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative aireachas Vocative a aireachais Genitive aireachais Dative aireachas

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an t-aireachas Genitive an aireachais Dative leis an aireachas don aireachas

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aireachas	n-aireachas	haireachas	t-aireachas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aireachas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 airechas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language