carcar

See also: Carcar

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: car‧car

Adjective

carcar

  1. (geology) characteristic of or resembling the Plio-Pleistocene Carcar formation

Old Irish

Etymology

From Latin carcer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkarkar/

Noun

carcar f (genitive carcrae)

  1. prison
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 29d19
      Ná ba thoirsech cía béo-sa hi carcair.
      Do not be mournful even though I am in prison.

Declension

Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative carcarL carcairL carcraH
Vocative carcarL carcairL carcraH
Accusative carcairN carcairL carcraH
Genitive carcraeH carcarL carcarN
Dative carcairL carcraib carcraib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: carcair

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
carcar charcar carcar
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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