carcar

See also: Carcar

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: car‧car

Adjective

carcar

1. (geology) characteristic of or resembling the Plio-Pleistocene Carcar formation

Old Irish

Etymology

From Latin carcer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkarkar/

Noun

carcar f (genitive carcrae)

1. prison
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 29^d19

     Ná ba thoirsech cía béo-sa hi carcair.

     Do not be mournful even though I am in prison.

Declension

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	carcarL	carcairL	carcraH
Vocative	carcarL	carcairL	carcraH
Accusative	carcairN	carcairL	carcraH
Genitive	carcraeH	carcarL	carcarN
Dative	carcairL	carcraib	carcraib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: carcair
  • Irish: carcair
  • Manx: carchyr
  • Scottish Gaelic: carcair

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
carcar	charcar	carcar pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “carcar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language