carn
English
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /kɑːn/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːn
Etymology 1
editNoun
editcarn (plural carns)
- 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 […]
See also
editEtymology 2
editAdapted 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
editcarn
- (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."
- Slipper hooted. But in a moment another wedging peak was upon us.
- 2008, Tim Winton, Breath, Picador UK Paperback edition 2008, Ch.3, p.52:
- (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:
Anagrams
editCatalan
editEtymology
editInherited from Latin carnem, from Proto-Italic *karō, from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *(s)ker-. Compare Occitan carn.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcarn f (uncountable)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “carn” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “carn”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “carn” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “carn” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish carn,[1] from Proto-Celtic *karnos.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcarn m (genitive singular cairn, nominative plural cairn)
Declension
editDerived terms
editMutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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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
edit- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “carn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 97
Further reading
edit- “carn”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “carn”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 119
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “carn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Occitan
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old Occitan carn, from Latin carō, carnem.
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editcarn f (plural carns)
Old French
editNoun
editcarn oblique singular, f (oblique plural carns, nominative singular carn, nominative plural carns)
- (early Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of char (flesh)
Old Occitan
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Latin carō, carnem.
Noun
editcarn f
Descendants
edit- Occitan: carn
Piedmontese
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editcarn m
Romansch
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Latin carō, carnem.
Noun
editcarn f (plural carns)
Welsh
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle Welsh carn.
Noun
editcarn m (plural carnau)
Derived terms
edit- carn pinwydd m (“red-belted bracket”)
- carn y fedwen m (“hoof fungus”)
- carnog (“hoofed”, adjective)
- carnol (“hoofed”, adjective)
Etymology 2
editFrom Middle Welsh carn, from Proto-Celtic *karnos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”). Akin to carreg.
Noun
editcarn f (plural carnau)
Derived terms
edit- carnedd (“cairn”)
Mutation
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