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

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, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative aireachas
vocative a aireachais
genitive aireachais
dative aireachas
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an t-aireachas
genitive an aireachais
dative leis an aireachas
don aireachas

Mutation

Mutated forms of aireachas
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aireachas n-aireachas haireachas t-aireachas

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

References

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