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 Old Norse kjarr. Compare Swedish kärr, Icelandic kjarr.

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Noun

carr (plural carrs)

A bog or marsh; marshy ground, swampland.
- 2007, Kevin Leahy, The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Lindsey, Tempus 2008, p. 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.
A marsh or fen on which low trees or bushes grow; a marshy woodland.

Noun

carr (plural carrs)

Archaic form of car (“wheeled vehicle”).

Etymology 3

From Old Northumbrian.

Noun

carr (plural carrs)

(Northumberland Dialect) rock

Anagrams

ACRR

Irish

Alternative forms

cárr (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish carr (“cart, waggon”). Nowadays reinforced over its synonym gluaisteán through influence of English car.

Pronunciation

(Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): [kɑːɾˠ]
(Ulster) IPA^(key): [kæːɾˠ]

Noun

carr m (genitive singular cairr, nominative plural carranna)

car (automobile)
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

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
carr	charr	gcarr
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “carr”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 carr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old English

Etymology

From Celtic.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kɑrr/, [kɑrˠ]

Noun

carr m

(Northumbria) stone, rock

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