carr

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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

Etymology 2

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), 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

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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

Noun

carr m

  1. (Northumbrian) stone, rock

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

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