carr

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

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

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.)

carr (plural carrs)

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

From Old Northumbrian.

carr (plural carrs)

1. (Northumberland Dialect) rock

• ACRR

• cárr (superseded)

From Old Irish carr (“cart, waggon”),^[1] from Proto-Celtic *karros, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós. Nowadays reinforced over its synonym gluaisteán through influence of English car.

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /kɑːɾˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /kaːɾˠ/^[2]

carr m (genitive singular cairr, nominative plural carranna)

1. car (automobile)
2. cart (small, open, wheeled vehicle)

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

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

From Celtic, perhaps from Old Welsh carrecc, from Proto-Brythonic *karreg, from Proto-Celtic *karrikā, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂er- (“hard”).

• IPA^(key): /kɑrr/, [kɑrˠ]

carr m

1. (Northumbrian) stone, rock

• stāncarr

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