anaireach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish anairech (“heedless, reckless”), equivalent to an- +‎ aireach.

Adjective

anaireach (genitive singular masculine anairigh, genitive singular feminine anairí, plural anaireacha, comparative anairí)

1. heedless, careless, inattentive

Declension

Declension of anaireach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	anaireach	anaireach	anaireacha
Vocative	anairigh		anaireacha
Genitive		anairí	anaireacha	anaireach
Dative	anaireach	anaireach; anairigh (archaic)	anaireacha
Comparative	níos anairí
Superlative	is anairí

Mutation

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

References

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