different between caird vs cairn

English

Etymology

From Irish ceard (“a tinker”).

Noun

caird (plural cairds)

1. (Britain, dialect) A travelling tinker; a tramp, or sturdy beggar.

Anagrams

• ADRIC, Cardi, Dirac, R acid, Radic, acrid, arcid, cardi, carid, daric

English

Etymology

From Scots cairn, from Scottish Gaelic carn (“heap of stones”), from Old Irish carn, from Proto-Celtic *karnos, from Proto-Indo-European *?erh?- (“horn”).

Compare Welsh carn, Cornish carn. Doublet of carn and horn.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k???n/

Noun

cairn (plural cairns)

1. A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
   • 1826, Thomas Campbell, Glenara, in The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, page 105:

     "Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn: / Why speak ye no word!"—said Glenara the stern.

2. A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, to guide travelers on land or at sea, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.
3. A cairn terrier.

Synonyms

• burial mound

Derived terms

• cairned (adjective)
• cairn terrier

Translations

References

• cairn in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “cairn”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• CARIN, Crain, Nicar., racin'

French

Noun

cairn m (plural cairns)

1. cairn

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /k????n??/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ka???n??/

Noun

cairn

1. inflection of carn:
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

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