oireachas

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish airechas (“position of an aire; rank”), from airech, from aire (“noble”, noun).[1]

Noun

oireachas m (genitive singular oireachais)

  1. precedence, pre-eminence, sovereignty; rank, status

Declension

Declension of oireachas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative oireachas
vocative a oireachais
genitive oireachais
dative oireachas
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an t-oireachas
genitive an oireachais
dative leis an oireachas
don oireachas

Mutation

Mutated forms of oireachas
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
oireachas n-oireachas hoireachas t-oireachas

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 airechas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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