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
- why, wherefore