carn

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See also: Carn, càrn, cârn, and čarn

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɑːn/
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːn

Etymology 1

Noun

carn (plural carns)

  1. 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 […]
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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

  1. (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."
  2. (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:

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Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin carnem, from Proto-Italic *karō, from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *(s)ker-. Compare Occitan carn.

Pronunciation

Noun

carn f (uncountable)

  1. meat
  2. flesh

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish carn, from Proto-Celtic *karnos.

Pronunciation

Noun

carn m (genitive singular cairn, nominative plural cairn)

  1. heap, pile
  2. cairn

Declension

Declension of carn

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative carn cairn
Vocative a chairn a charna
Genitive cairn carn
Dative carn cairn

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an carn na cairn
Genitive an chairn na gcarn
Dative leis an gcarn

don charn

leis na cairn

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
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

  1. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “carn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 97

Further reading

Occitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Occitan carn, from Latin carō, carnem.

Pronunciation

Noun

carn f (plural carns)

  1. flesh
  2. meat

Old French

Noun

carn oblique singular, f (oblique plural carns, nominative singular carn, nominative plural carns)

  1. (early Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of char (flesh)

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin carō, carnem.

Noun

carn f

  1. flesh

Descendants

  • Occitan: carn

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin carnis.

Pronunciation

Noun

carn m

  1. flesh
  2. meat

Romansch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin carō, carnem.

Noun

carn f (plural carns)

  1. (Sursilvan) meat

Welsh

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Welsh carn.

Noun

carn m (plural carnau)

  1. hoof
  2. handle, haft (of knife)
  3. hilt
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle Welsh carn, from Proto-Celtic *karnos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”). Akin to carreg.

Noun

carn f (plural carnau)

  1. cairn, barrow
    Synonym: carnedd
Derived terms

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
carn garn ngharn charn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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