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, no plural)

bare forms 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

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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aireachas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 airechas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language