carn
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɑːn/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːn
Noun
carn (plural carns)
- Archaic form of cairn.
- 1807, George Chalmers, Caledonia:
- The Druid Carns are generally fenced round the bottom, by a circle of stones: these Carns had always on their summits, a large flat stone, on which the Druid fires were lighted […]
See also
Etymology 2
Adapted from the vernacular pronunciation of c'mon, itself an informal variant of come on. The first uses of the term in its extended sense appear to have been amongst Australian rules football fans in Victoria, with the use later spreading to other states and sports.
Interjection
carn
- (Australia, informal) Come on.
- 2008, Tim Winton, Breath, Picador UK Paperback edition 2008, Ch.3, p.52:
- Slipper hooted. But in a moment another wedging peak was upon us.
"Carn, kid. No guts, no glory."
"I don't think so," I said.
"It's the only way home now."
- Slipper hooted. But in a moment another wedging peak was upon us.
- 2008, Tim Winton, Breath, Picador UK Paperback edition 2008, Ch.3, p.52:
- (Australia, informal) An exclamation of support or approval, usually for a sporting (football) team.
- 1956 September 10, “Carn the Magpies!”, in The Argus:
- 2001 March 26, “Rabbitohs win hearts and minds of the disaffected”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:
- Cries of "Carn the Bunnies" rang out, and the talk was of past glories, present disappointments and future hopes.
- 2004 February 12, “Keeping sport local on our ABC”, in The Age:
- Surely there is someone in ABC Television management who has read Bruce Dawe's evocative poem Life Cycle: "When children are born in Victoria/they are wrapped in the club-colours, laid in beribboned cots/having already begun a lifetime's barracking/Carn, they cry, carn … feebly at first."
- 2011 October 11, “Carn the Four'n Twenty, says Preston”, in Herald Sun:
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Latin carnem, from Proto-Italic *karō, from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *(s)ker-. Compare Occitan carn.
Pronunciation
Further reading
- “carn” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “carn”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “carn” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “carn” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish carn,[1] from Proto-Celtic *karnos.
Declension
Declension of carn
Derived terms
- carn aoiligh
- carn consan
- carnán
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
carn | charn | gcarn |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “carn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 97
Further reading
- “carn”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “carn”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 119
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “carn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Old French
Noun
carn oblique singular, f (oblique plural carns, nominative singular carn, nominative plural carns)
- (early Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of char (flesh)
Romansch
Etymology
From Latin carō, carnem.
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /karn/
Etymology 1
From Middle Welsh carn.
Derived terms
- carn y fedwen m (“hoof fungus”)
- carnog (“hoofed”, adjective)
- carnol (“hoofed”, adjective)
Etymology 2
From Middle Welsh carn, from Proto-Celtic *karnos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”). Akin to carreg.
Derived terms
- carnedd (“cairn”)
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