carrey

From Middle Irish cara (“friend, relation”) (compare Irish cara, Scottish Gaelic caraid), from Old Irish carae (“friend, relation”), from Proto-Celtic *karants (“friend”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros (“dear”) (compare Latin cārus, English charity, whore).

carrey m (genitive singular carrey, plural caarjyn)

1. friend

   She carrey dooin eh.

   He is a friend of ours.

• neucharrey (“enemy”)

• caarjys (“friendship”)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cara”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language