árachas

See also: àrachas

Irish

Etymology

From árach (“bond, security”) +‎ -as.

Noun

árachas m (genitive singular árachais)

1. insurance

   Chuir siad árachas ar an gcarr.

   They insured the car; they took out insurance on the car.

   (literally, “They put insurance on the car.”)

Declension

Declension of árachas

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative árachas Vocative a árachais Genitive árachais Dative árachas

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an t-árachas Genitive an árachais Dative leis an árachas don árachas

Derived terms

• aerárachas
• árachas dífhostaíochta
• árachas dóiteáin
• árachas muirí
• árachas saoil
• árachas sláinte
• árachas tionóisce
• faoi árachas
• nóta árachais
• polasaí árachais
• sealbhóir árachais
• táille árachais

 

Mutation

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

References

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