n.
Gaw kerre
‘thicket on marshy ground’ (Modern English carr)
PGmc Ancestor
*kerza-
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
kjarr 'copsewood, brushwood’
(ONP kjarr (sb.))
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
Far (name element) kjarr, Icel kjarr, Norw kjarr, kjerr, Dan kær, Sw kärr
OE Cognate
Phonological and morphological markers
absence of palatalization of */k/
Summary category
A1bc
Attested only in N and E, mostly in place-names and derivative surnames rather than literary texts. MnE N and EM dial. See further EPNE and Gevenich 1918: 94, and Elliott 1984: 77, 147 and 1989: 13.
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
Gaw 1421, 1431