different between swampland vs carr

English

Etymology

swamp +? land

Noun

swampland (countable and uncountable, plural swamplands)

1. (countable, uncountable) Low-lying land that is regularly flooded; especially such land that is drier than a bog or a marsh.
2. (uncountable, physics) The set of all possible string theories.

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k??/
• Homophones: car, Carr, Karr
• Rhymes: -??(?)

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.

Etymology 2

Noun

carr (plural carrs)

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

Anagrams

• ACRR

Irish

Alternative forms

• cárr (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish carr (“cart, waggon”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): [k????]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): [kæ???]

Noun

carr m (genitive singular cairr, nominative plural carranna)

1. car (automobile)
2. cart (small, open, wheeled vehicle)

Declension

Synonyms

• (car, automobile): gluaisteán
• (cart): féan

Derived terms

Mutation

References

• "carr" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 carr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old English

Etymology

From Celtic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?rr/, [k?r?]

Noun

carr m

1. (Northumbria) stone, rock