oireachtas

See also: Oireachtas

Irish

Alternative forms

  • oireachtus, oirechtas, oirechtus (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish airechtas.[2] By surface analysis, oireacht +‎ -as.

Pronunciation

Noun

oireachtas m (genitive singular oireachtais, nominative plural oireachtais)

  1. assembly (legislative body)
    Synonyms: comhthionól, tionól
  2. gathering (get-together, social function)
    Synonym: tionól
  3. meeting (gathering for a purpose)
    Synonym: cruinniú

Declension

Declension of oireachtas (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative oireachtas oireachtais
vocative a oireachtais a oireachtasa
genitive oireachtais oireachtas
dative oireachtas oireachtais
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-oireachtas na hoireachtais
genitive an oireachtais na n-oireachtas
dative leis an oireachtas
don oireachtas 		leis na hoireachtais

Derived terms

  • Oireachtas
    • → English: Oireachtas

Mutation

Mutated forms of oireachtas
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
oireachtas n-oireachtas hoireachtas t-oireachtas

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

References

  1. ^ “oireachtas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “airechtas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 145, page 74
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 89, page 36

Further reading

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