carr

See also: Carr

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse kjarr. Compare Swedish kärr, Icelandic kjarr.

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Noun

carr (plural carrs)

  1. A bog or marsh; marshy ground, swampland.
    • 2007, Kevin Leahy, The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Lindsey, Tempus, published 2008, page 16:
      The marsh lands or ‘carrs’ that covered the low-lying floor of the vale could not be cultivated and the poorly drained flanks of the vale would be best used as pasture.
    • 2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 155:
      The old tales told of these noble animals sighted padding across clodded fields or circling shrinking copses. Stalking the choking carrs.
  2. A marsh or fen on which low trees or bushes grow; a marshy woodland.
Derived terms

Noun

carr (plural carrs)

  1. Archaic form of car (“wheeled vehicle”).

Etymology 3

From Old Northumbrian.

Noun

carr (plural carrs)

  1. (Northumberland Dialect) rock

Anagrams

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish carr (“cart, waggon”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós. Nowadays reinforced over its synonym gluaisteán through influence of English car.

Pronunciation

Noun

carr m (genitive singular cairr, nominative plural carranna)

  1. car (automobile)
  2. cart (small, open, wheeled vehicle)

Declension
Declension of carr

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative carr carranna
Vocative a chairr a charranna
Genitive cairr carranna
Dative carr carranna

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an carr na carranna
Genitive an chairr na gcarranna
Dative leis an gcarr

don charr

 leis na carranna

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • carr armúrtha (“armoured car”)
  • carraeir (“carman, carrier”)
  • carrán (“small cart”)
  • carrbhealach (“carriageway”)
  • carrchaladh (“car ferry”)
  • carrchlós (“parking lot, car park”)
  • otharcharr (“ambulance”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
carr charr gcarr
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 carr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 95

Further reading

Old English

Etymology

From Celtic, perhaps from Old Welsh carrecc, from Proto-Brythonic *karreg, from Proto-Celtic *karrikā, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂er- (“hard”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kɑrr/, [kɑrˠ]

Noun

carr m

  1. (Northumbrian) stone, rock

Declension
Declension of carr (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative carr carras
accusative carr carras
genitive carres carra
dative carre carrum

Derived terms
  • stāncarr

Descendants
  • Middle English: *carr
    • English: carr (dialectal)
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