carson

See also: Carson

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

  • c'arson

Etymology

Contraction of “cia ar son”. See son (‘sake (of)‘, cé / cia and air. See also airson.

Pronunciation

  • car-son [kʰarˈsɔn̪] : note the stress on the second syllable, which is unusual in Scottish Gaelic - a result of its origins as a contraction of a multiple word unit, now merely written as a single word, an orthographic choice with no hyphenation.

Adverb

carson

  1. why, wherefore
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