See also: Carrick

English

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Etymology

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Noun

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carrick (plural carricks)

  1. Alternative spelling of carrack.
  2. (nonce word) A greatcoat.
    • 1959, Dmitri Nabokov (translator), Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading:
      [] here there was little hairy Pushkin in a fur carrick, and ratlike Gogol in a flamboyant waistcoat, and old little Tolstoy with his fat nose []
    • c. 1948, Vladimir Nabokov, "Lecture on The Metamorphosis" (reprinted in Lectures on Literature, 1980)
      A poor man is robbed of his overcoat (Gogol's "The Greatcoat," or more correctly "The Carrick") []

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French

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Etymology

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The original sense was "carriage," itself adapted from English curricle.

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carrick m (plural carricks)

  1. heavy overcoat

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Manx

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish carrac (rock, large stone), borrowed from Proto-Brythonic *karreg, from Proto-Celtic *karrikā, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂er- (hard). Cognate with Irish carraig and Scottish Gaelic carraig.

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carrick f (genitive singular carrickey, plural carrickyn)

  1. rock, stone
  2. fortress, fort

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Mutation

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Mutation of carrick
radical lenition eclipsis
carrick charrick garrick

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