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)

attention
vigilance
(as verbal noun, ag aireachas) watching

Alternative forms

aireachán m

Noun

aireachas m (genitive singular aireachais)

Alternative form of oireachas (“precedence, pre-eminence, sovereignty; rank, status”)

Declension

Declension of aireachas

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

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

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aireachas	n-aireachas	haireachas	t-aireachas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aireachas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 airechas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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