A Car

[Doc Tinker]

Where and when did the word car come from? How did automobile get abbreviated to car?



Doc

 

[lschultz]

Why do you want to know where the word car came from?Don't you drive a truck? Or do you have a diesel motorcycle?

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

Main Entry: car

Pronunciation: 'kär, dial also 'kor, 'kyär

Function: noun

Etymology: Middle English carre, from Anglo-French, from Latin carra, plural of carrum, alteration of carrus, of Celtic origin; akin to Old Irish & Middle Welsh carr vehicle; akin to Latin currere to run

Date: 14th century

1 : a vehicle moving on wheels: as a archaic : CARRIAGE, CHARIOT b : a vehicle designed to move on rails (as of a railroad) c : AUTOMOBILE

2 : the passenger compartment of an elevator

3 : the part of an airship or balloon that carries the passengers and cargo

 

[TPCDrafting]

Why is it in the NE its called a CAH?

 

[Turbo Tim 1]

Yeah and they take the CAH (car) to go pick up the PIETZZERRR (pizza). If there is an R make in an A and if there is an A make it an R. I would say that car is a shortend form of the word carriage since as Americans we are lazy and like to make words shorter.

 

[MCummings]

Originally posted by ToolManTimTaylor

Main Entry: car

Pronunciation: 'kär, dial also 'kor, 'kyär

Function: noun

Etymology: Middle English carre, from Anglo-French, from Latin carra, plural of carrum, alteration of carrus, of Celtic origin; akin to Old Irish & Middle Welsh carr vehicle; akin to Latin currere to run

Date: 14th century

1 : a vehicle moving on wheels: as a archaic : CARRIAGE, CHARIOT b : a vehicle designed to move on rails (as of a railroad) c : AUTOMOBILE

2 : the passenger compartment of an elevator

3 : the part of an airship or balloon that carries the passengers and cargo

Looks like illflem has some competition!



Merrick Cummings Jr

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

Oh Merrick you say the sweetest things

 

[lschultz]

Hold on Doc will have a come back on that. I think.