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Etymological dictionary
cainnt, speech, Ir. caint; from can, say, q.v. Stokes gives the stem as *kan(s)ti, root kans, Skr çasti, prise, from çams, speak, Lat. censeo.
caiptean, a captain, Ir., M. Ir. caiptín; from M. Eng. capitain, from O. Fr. capitaine, Lat. capitaneus, caput, head.
càir, a blaze, sea foam, etc.; see rather caoir.
càir, the gum, Ir. cáir (cairib, Fol.):
càir, a peat moss, dry part of the peat moss (Dial.); from Eng. carr, boggy ground, Norse kjarr, brushwood. Also càthar, q.v.
cairb, the bent ridge of a cart saddle (srathair). Shaw gives further the meanings “plank, ship, fusee (cairb a’ ghunna) (Rob), chariot”; Ir. corb, coach. The word is the primary stem from which carbad, chariot, springs; see carbad. As “fusee” or “fusil”, i.e., “musket”, it seems a curtailed form of cairbinn.
cairbh, a carcase, carrion; also cairb (Dial.); allied to corpus?
cairbhist, carriage, tenants’ rent service; from M. Eng. cariage, in all senses (Cf. the charter terms—“Areage and cariage and all due service”), now carriage.
cairbinn, a carabine; from the Eng.
cairbinneach, a toothless person (Sh.); from †cairb, a jaw, gum, Ir. cairb. See cairb above.
cairc, flesh, person:
càird, a delay, respite, Ir. cáirde; cf. O. Ir. cairde, pactum. A special legal use of a word which originally means "friendship". See next.
càirdeas, friendship, so Ir., O. Ir. cairdes; from caraid, q.v.
càireag, a prating girl (Sh., who gives caireog); probably from càir, gum: "having jaw".
caireal, noise; see coirioll.
†cairfhiadh, a hart or stag, Ir. cáirrfhiadh: *carbh-fhiadh. For *carbh, a deer; cf. W. carw, hart, stag, Cor. caruu, Br. caru; Lat. carvus; Gr. κεραός, horned.
càirich, mend, Ir. cóirighim, E. Ir. córaigim, arrange, from cóir, q.v. Cf. cairim, sutor, Z. 775.
cairidh, a weir, Ir. cora, M. Ir. coraidh for cora, g. corad, W. cored, O. W. and O. Br. coret, from Celtic korjô, I set, put. See cuir.
cairgein, sea moss, Ir. moss, Eng carrageen, so named from Carragheen (Waterford), in Ireland. This place name is a dim. of carraig, rock.
cairis, corpse, carcase; founded on M. Eng. cors, Sc. corrssys (pl. in Blind Harry), now corse.
cairmeal, wild liquorice; see carrameille.
