aireach

See also: àireach

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish airech (“heedful, attentive, cautious”), from aire (“act of guarding, watching over, tending, caring for”); synchronically aire (“care, attention; heed, notice”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

aireach (genitive singular masculine airigh, genitive singular feminine airí, plural aireacha, comparative airí)

  1. careful, attentive
  2. vigilant
    Synonym: cathaiseach (literary)
Declension
Declension of aireach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative aireach aireach aireacha
Vocative airigh aireacha
Genitive airí aireacha aireach
Dative aireach aireach;
airigh (archaic)		 aireacha
Comparative níos airí
Superlative is airí
Alternative forms
Derived terms
  • anaireach (“heedless, careless, inattentive”, adjective)

Etymology 2

Noun

aireach m

  1. genitive singular of aire (“nobleman”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
aireach n-aireach haireach not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

References
  1. Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 28.
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