carr

See also: Carr

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɑː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kɑɹ/
• Homophones: car, Carr, Karr
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

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

• alder carr

 

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

• ACRR

Irish

Alternative forms

• cárr (superseded)

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

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /kɑːɾˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /kaːɾˠ/

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

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

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.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “carr”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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)