carr

See also: Carr

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

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

• alder carr
• Batley Carr
• carrland

 

Etymology 2

Noun

carr (plural carrs)

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

Etymology 3

From Old Northumbrian.

Noun

carr (plural carrs)

1. (Northumberland Dialect) rock

Anagrams

• ACRR

Irish

Alternative forms

• cárr (superseded)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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 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

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

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.

Further reading

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

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

1. (Northumbrian) stone, rock

Declension

Declension of carr (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	carr	carras
accusative	carr	carras
genitive	carres	carra
dative	carre	carrum

Derived terms

• stāncarr

Descendants

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