carpat

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kərˈpat]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaɾˈpat]

Adjective

carpat (feminine carpada, masculine plural carpats, feminine plural carpades)

1. (diving, gymnastics) piked (with the knees straight and the body bent at the waist)

Derived terms

• salt carpat

Further reading

• “carpat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Latin

Verb

carpat

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of carpō

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *karbantos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkarbad/

Noun

carpat m

1. chariot

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	carpat	carpatL	carpaitL
Vocative	carpait	carpatL	cairptiuH
Accusative	carpatN	carpatL	cairptiuH
Genitive	carpaitL	carpat	carpatN
Dative	carputL	cairptib	cairptib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: carbad
• Scottish Gaelic: carbad
• → Old Breton: cerpit
  • Breton: calvez
• → Cornish: cerpit
• → Welsh: cerbyd

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
carpat	charpat	carpat pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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