càrn

See also: carn, cârn, and čarn

Scottish Gaelic

Càrn (1).

Etymology

From Old Irish carn, from Proto-Celtic *karnos. Cognates include Irish carn and Welsh carn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰaːrˠn̪ˠ/
• Hyphenation: càrn

Noun

càrn m (genitive singular cùirn, plural cùirn)

1. cairn
2. cart, sled

Declension

Declension of càrn (type I masculine noun)

Indefinite
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	càrn	cùirn
Genitive	cùirn	chàrn
Dative	càrn	cùirn; càrnaibh*
Definite
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	(an) càrn	(na) cùirn
Genitive	(a') chùirn	(nan) càrn
Dative	(a') chàrn	(na) cùirn; càrnaibh*
Vocative	(a) chùirn	(a) chàrna

*obsolete form, was used until the 19th century

Descendants

• → Scots: cairn
  • → English: cairn

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
càrn	chàrn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Colin Mark (2003) “càrn”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 117