# carr
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kɑː/
* (US) IPA: /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)
* 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.
* 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)
* Archaic form of car (“wheeled vehicle”).

### Etymology 3

From Old Northumbrian.

#### Noun

carr (plural carrs)
* (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* cárr (superseded)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 the sense “automobile” is reinforced over its synonym gluaisteán through influence of English car.

### Pronunciation

* (Munster, Connacht) IPA: /kɑːɾˠ/, /kaːɾˠ/
* (Ulster) IPA: /kaɾˠ/, /kaːɾˠ/
* Homophone: cár (most pronunciations)

### Noun

carr m (genitive singular cairr, nominative plural carranna)
* car (automobile)
* cart (small, open, wheeled vehicle)

#### 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

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 carr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 149
* ↑ Stockman, Gerard (1974) The Irish of Achill, Co. Mayo (Studies in Irish Language and Literature, Department of Celtic, Q.U.B.; vol. 2), Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University of Belfast, section 1254, page 273
* ↑ de Búrca, Seán (1958) The Irish of Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, section 17, page 8
* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 267, page 95
* ↑ Sommerfelt, Alf (1922) The Dialect of Torr, County Donegal, volume I: Phonology, Christiania [Oslo]: Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania, section 229, page 81
* ↑ Hamilton, John Noel (1974) A Phonetic Study of the Irish of Tory Island, Co. Donegal (Studies in Irish Language and Literature, Department of Celtic, Q.U.B.; vol. 3), Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University Belfast, page 250
* ↑ Ó Searcaigh, Séamus (1925) Foghraidheacht Ghaedhilge an Tuaiscirt [Pronunciation of Northern Irish]‎ (in Irish), Béal Feirste [Belfast]: Brún agus Ó Nualláin [Browne and Nolan], section 9, page 7
* ↑ Lucas, Leslie W. (1979) Grammar of Ros Goill Irish Co. Donegal (Studies in Irish Language and Literature, Department of Celtic, Q.U.B.; vol. 5), Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University of Belfast, page 240

### 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: /kɑrr/, [kɑrˠ]

### Noun

carr m
* (Northumbrian) stone, rock

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

#### Derived terms

* stāncarr

#### Descendants

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