carr

See also: Carr

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English kerr and Middle English carr meaning meadow, field or grassland of a low lying variety; possibly related to Old Norse kjarr. Compare Swedish kärr, Icelandic kjarr.

Noun

carr (plural carrs)

  1. Any 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. In particular, a marsh or fen formed when the litter of decaying reeds (e.g. in a lake) raises the ground level above the water, allowing more vegetation like sedges and then low bushes or trees to grow; a marshy woodland. (Compare marsh, swamp, bog, fen.)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

carr (plural carrs)

  1. Archaic form of car (“wheeled vehicle”).

Etymology 3

From Northumbrian Old English carr; possibly adopted from a Cumbric *carreg, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂er- (“hard”).

Noun

carr (plural carrs)

  1. (Northumberland) Rock.

Anagrams

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish carr (“cart, waggon”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós. Nowadays the sense “automobile” is 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

Declension of carr (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative carr carranna
vocative a chairr a charranna
genitive cairr carranna
dative carr carranna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an carr na carranna
genitive an chairr na gcarranna
dative leis an gcarr
don charr 		leis na carranna

Synonyms

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

Mutated forms of carr
radical lenition eclipsis
carr charr gcarr

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

References
  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 carr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 149
  3. ^ Stockman, Gerard (1974), The Irish of Achill, Co. Mayo (Studies in Irish Language and Literature, Department of Celtic, Q.U.B.; vol. 2), Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University of Belfast, section 1254, page 273
  4. ^ de Búrca, Seán (1958), The Irish of Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, section 17, page 8
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 267, page 95
  6. ^ Sommerfelt, Alf (1922), The Dialect of Torr, County Donegal, volume I: Phonology, Christiania [Oslo]: Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania, section 229, page 81
  7. ^ Hamilton, John Noel (1974), A Phonetic Study of the Irish of Tory Island, Co. Donegal (Studies in Irish Language and Literature, Department of Celtic, Q.U.B.; vol. 3), Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University Belfast, page 250
  8. ^ Ó Searcaigh, Séamus (1925), Foghraidheacht Ghaedhilge an Tuaiscirt [Pronunciation of Northern Irish]‎[1] (in Irish), Béal Feirste [Belfast]: Brún agus Ó Nualláin [Browne and Nolan], section 9, page 7
  9. ^ Lucas, Leslie W. (1979), Grammar of Ros Goill Irish Co. Donegal (Studies in Irish Language and Literature, Department of Celtic, Q.U.B.; vol. 5), Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University of Belfast, page 240

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

  • IPA(key): /kɑrr/, [kɑrˠ]

Noun

carr m (Northumbrian)

  1. stone, rock

Usage notes

  • According to the Dictionary of Old English, this word occurs seven times.
    • Two of those seven instances are in use as placenames in Wessex mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon-Chronicle. See Carr.
    • The other five occurrences are all Northumbrian. Four of the five are found in the Lindisfarne Gospels, and one is found in the Northumbrian part of the Rushworth Gospels (see above).

Declension

Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative carr carras
accusative carr carras
genitive carres carra
dative carre carrum

Derived terms

Descendants

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