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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From cairb (“bent ridge of a cart saddle”), earlier "plank, ship, fuse, chariot," ultimately from the root of carbad (“chariot”).
Pronunciation
Noun
càr m (genitive singular càir, plural càraichean)
- car
- chaidh mi air a' chàr an-dè ― I went by car yesterday (literally, “I went on the car yesterday”)[1]
- cart; chariot
- raft (for carrying things on)
- jaw
- fish
- stone
- scab, mange, itch
- fen, mossy plain
Declension
Declension of càr (type I masculine noun)
✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century
Derived terms
Adverb
càr
- friendly, related to
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| càr |
chàr
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “càr”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC