cairt

• IPA^(key): /kɑɾˠtʲ/^[1][2], /kaɾˠtʲ/^[3], /kæɾˠtʲ/^[4]

From Old Irish cairt, from Latin charta,^[5] from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs). Doublet of cárta.

cairt f (genitive singular cairte, nominative plural cairteacha)

1. chart
2. charter
3. parchment, deed

From Middle Irish cairt, from Old Norse kartr.^[6]

cairt f (genitive singular cairte or cairteach, nominative plural cairteacha)

1. cart
2. car, automobile

Alternative declension

• (cart): carr, féan
• (car, automobile): carr, gluaisteán

• fear cairte (“carter; hawker”)
• carra cairte (“chassis of cart”)
• cairteoir (“carter”)

cairt f (genitive singular cairte, nominative plural cairteacha)

1. Alternative form of coirt (“bark”)

cairt (present analytic cairteann, future analytic cairtfidh, verbal noun cairteadh, past participle cairte)

1. (transitive) Alternative form of coirtigh (“decorticate”)

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cairt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 107
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cairt”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Middle English carde, from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “paper, papyrus”).

cairt

1. cart
2. card
3. chart; map
   • a. 1578, Protocol Books of Dominus Thomas Johnsoun, 1528–1578:

     Ane brodit cart contenyng all cuntras

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   • a. 1606, A Collection of Inventories and other Records of the Royal Wardrobe and Jewelhouse and of the artillery and munitioun in some of the royal castles, 1488–1606 (published 1815):

     Tua litle cairtis of the yle of Malt

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • a. 1660, The Poetical Remains of William Lithgow, the Scotish Traveller 1618–60 (published 1863):

     I had rather see on land, Be true eye-sight, than all the worlde by cairt

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Scots: cairt

cairt

1. to cart

• “cairt”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

From Middle Scots cairt, from Middle English carde, from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “paper, papyrus”).

cairt (plural cairts)

1. card

cairt (plural cairts)

1. cart

cairt (third-person singular simple present cairts, present participle cairtin, simple past cairtit, past participle cairtit)

1. to cart

• “cairt”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

From Old Irish cairt, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs).

• IPA^(key): /kʰarˠʃtʲ/

cairt f (genitive singular cairte, plural cairtean)

1. card
2. chart
3. charter (document)
4. cart, wagon
5. bark, rind