carr

See also: Carr

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse. Compare Swedish kärr, Icelandic kjarr.

Noun

carr (plural carrs)

  1. 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.
  2. A marsh or fen on which low trees or bushes grow; a marshy woodland.

Noun

carr (plural carrs)

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

Anagrams

Irish

Alternative forms
  • cárr (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish carr (“cart, waggon”).

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:

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

Derived terms
  • carraeir (“carman, carrier”)
  • carrán (“small cart”)
  • carr armúrtha (“armoured car”)
  • 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

Old English

Etymology

From Celtic.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kɑrr/, [kɑrˠrˠ]

Noun

carr m

  1. (Northumbria) stone, rock
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