carpat

Catalan

Pronunciation

Adjective

carpat (feminine carpada, masculine plural carpats, feminine plural carpades)

  1. (diving, gymnastics) piked (with the knees straight and the body bent at the waist)

Derived terms

  • salt carpat

Further reading

Latin

Verb

carpat

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of carpō

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *karbantos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkarbad]

Noun

carpat m

  1. chariot

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative carpat carpatL carpaitL
vocative carpait carpatL cairptiuH
accusative carpatN carpatL cairptiuH
genitive carpaitL carpat carpatN
dative carputL cairptib cairptib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Quotations

  • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 96c13
    Ro·leldar díb són, connacha·glúaistis in charbait.
    That is, they clung to them so that the chariots could not move.

Descendants

  • Irish: carbad
  • Manx: carbyd
  • Scottish Gaelic: carbad
  • Proto-Brythonic: *kėrbɨd
    • Old Breton: cerpit
      • Breton: karbed
    • Cornish: cerpit
    • Middle Welsh: kerbyt

Mutation

Mutation of carpat
radical lenition nasalization
carpat charpat carpat
pronounced with /ɡ-/

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

Further reading