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)

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

"oireachas" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“1 airechas” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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