aireach
See also: àireach
Irish
Pronunciation
- (Aran) IPA(key): /ˈæɾʲəx/[1]
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)
- careful, attentive
- 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
- airitheach
Derived terms
- anaireach (“heedless, careless, inattentive”, adjective)
Noun
aireach m
- genitive singular of aire (“nobleman”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with 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
- "aireach" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
References
- Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 28.