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Carse

//ˈkɑɹs// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    Low, fertile land; a river valley. Scotland

    "In the Carse of Gowrie to all the flat land , which is a great proportion of the district , is a deep rich clay"

  2. 2
    An area of fertile, low-lying (typically alluvial) land occupying certain Scottish river valleys, such as that of the River Forth. countable

Etymology

From Middle English kerrs, cars, of uncertain origin. Perhaps Celtic: the term is "first found in a semi-Gaelic form", Carsach (c. 1143); compare Welsh cars (“bog, fen”), carsen (“reed”), Armoric kars, korsen (“bog plant, reed”). Alternatively, perhaps related to carr (“bog, march, swampland”) (perhaps suffixed with a variant of -ish, -sæ); compare Swedish kärr (“fen; bog”).

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