cart – English noun declension

English noun forms of cart

Noun: cart
Singularcart
Pluralcarts

Sample Sentences

  • The grocer delivered his goods by cart.
  • We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Old Norse kartrbor.
3. Proto-Germanic *kradô
4. Proto-West Germanic *krat
5. Old English crætder.
6. Middle English cart
7. English cart
8. From Middle English cart, kart, from Old Norse kartr (“wagon; cart”), merged with native Old English cræt (“a chariot; cart”), from Proto-Germanic *krattaz, *krattijô, *kradō, from Proto-Indo-European *gret- (“tracery; wattle; cradle; cage; basket”), from *ger- (“to turn, wind”).
9. Cognate with West Frisian kret (“wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), Dutch krat, kret (“crate; wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), German Krätze (“basket; pannier”). Wider cognates include Sanskrit ग्रन्थ (grantha, “a binding”). See: Middle English Nouns 'cart', Old Norse Nouns 'kartr', Old English Nouns 'cræt', Dutch Nouns 'krat', German Nouns 'Krätze'.

Verbs referencing "cart"

English Nouns crate, Russian Nouns карт.