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carr

See also: Carr

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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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.

Noun

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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.)
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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carr (plural carrs)

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

Etymology 3

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From Old Northumbrian.

Noun

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carr (plural carrs)

  1. (Northumberland Dialect) rock

Anagrams

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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.

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Noun

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carr m (genitive singular cairr, nominative plural carranna)

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

Declension

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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

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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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

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  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. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 95

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Old English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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carr m

  1. (Northumbrian) stone, rock

Declension

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Strong a-stem:

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

Derived terms

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Descendants

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