oireachas

Irish

Alternative forms

• aireachas

Etymology

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

Noun

oireachas m (genitive singular oireachais)

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

Declension

Declension of oireachas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative oireachas vocative a oireachais genitive oireachais dative oireachas forms with the definite article case 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.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “oireachas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN