oireachas

Irish

Alternative forms

• aireachas²

Etymology

From Old Irish airechas (“position of an aire; rank, legal status; precedence, sovereignty, superiority, importance”), 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

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) 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

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “oireachas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 airechas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language