{"id":24155,"date":"2025-08-07T12:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24155"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:49:11","slug":"a-cargo-of-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24155","title":{"rendered":"A Cargo of Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is the word <strong>cargo<\/strong> related to the word <strong>car<\/strong>? Let&#8217;s find out.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/48073612@N04\/39859651421\/in\/photolist-23Jg8Fk-2fteoiW-MTpNXW-JfLumS-iiqL8B-284WLTw-23k8mT5-23G2zzh-kJJfWP-2bxZppX-oUVWpH-rkUSKH-2bqUMzj-rmJ5VT-25BcWnV-fLypGT-jGeY99-cAfxdj-ePcNYd-CtKH4c-Me12qH-JqbGk6-8kqAoX-LdhHHi-RrfH1e-oYkCm3-Ewn59i-HA8ykm-bzmjs3-bBWS6K-bVG1QD-p9dEw4-c5o2a7-21d29af-n9wUMv-N6aDuk-29m3T9b-bxRvr3-9fNS55-Dk19Rp-24HM9DS-o7bBCg-ip2NzF-nh5nvP-29KYP8p-DJ6cEU-asef5t-dUjZCL-dMZgxx-q1H87S\" title=\"&#x27;Ice Runner&#x27;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4658\/39859651421_dc5c6fdd8d_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"&#x27;Ice Runner&#x27;\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cargo<\/strong> [\u02c8k\u0251\u02d0\u0261\u0259\u028a \/ \u02c8k\u0251\u0279\u0261o\u028a] refers to freight carried by a ship, aircraft or motor vehicle. It comes from Spanish <strong>cargo<\/strong> (charge, burden, position, post), from <strong>cargar<\/strong> (to load, carry, charge), from Late Latin <em>carric\u0101re<\/em>, from <em>carric\u014d<\/em> (to load), from <em>carrus<\/em> (wagon, a two-wheeled baggage cart, load, two-wheeled Celtic war chariot), from Gaulish <em>*karros<\/em> (wagon), from Proto-Celtic <em>*karros<\/em> (wagon), from Proto-Indo-European <em>*\u1e31r\u0325s\u00f3s<\/em> (vehicle), from <em>*\u1e31ers-<\/em> (to run) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/cargo#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/d3l\/4172122567\/in\/photolist-7mFdFH-S1Q1W-Sc8R3-7wgPAH-hPcwu-pPWJxa-gVvbC-cfoY4q-5M9tSV-6odGGi-GSeb4-aBfcM-nf1ceN-4zrFW5-J7Vo6-6s4bE6-2LGAVt-9X9Rhs-G5mJ-8GAgYo-qkoU7C-9u26X-K3vhQ-fjLnK-XqK6jE-47pp2-VsxHC-8E6kJS-8wjeJb-6JCUZd-arQyyw-N3Jfa-nfnpxe-dNgAxe-3gMspg-6iZ2wR-cTxLof-8qDbd4-GLSjCi-4XTtCX-565Hkq-dDEsr7-fdj5Lf-7PHeSm-cfnboq-3e6b1H-8gW65h-b33awa-cTvskJ-DfyPZZ\" title=\"cars\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2795\/4172122567_b6a4d87dfc_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"cars\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A <strong>car<\/strong> [k\u0251\u02d0 \/ k\u0251\u0279] is a wheeled vehicle that moves independently, with at least three wheels, powered mechanically, steered by a driver and mostly for personal transportation; or any vehicle designed to run on rails [<em>other meanings are available<\/em>]. <\/p>\n<p>It comes from Middle English <em>carre<\/em> (cart, wagon), from Anglo-Norman <em>carre<\/em> (cart), from  Latin <em>carra<\/em>, from <em>carrus<\/em> (wagon(load), cart(load), load), etc. &#8211; so the same roots as <strong>cargo<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/car#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other words from the same Proto-Celtic roots include <strong>car<\/strong> (vehicle, car, sled, dray) in Welsh, <strong>karr<\/strong> (car, vehicle) in Breton, <strong>carro<\/strong> (wagon, cart, van, lorry, truck) in Italian, <strong>char<\/strong> (chariot, carriage, tank, car) in French, <strong>carro<\/strong> (cart, car) in Portuguese, <strong>kar<\/strong> (cart, car, truck) in Dutch, <strong>k\u00e4rra<\/strong> (cart, wagon) in Swedish, <strong>qerre<\/strong> (cart, carriage) in Albanian, and <strong>career<\/strong>, <strong>carriage<\/strong>, <strong>carry<\/strong>, <strong>charge<\/strong>, <strong>chariot<\/strong> and posssibly <strong>carousel<\/strong> in English [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/karros\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other words from the same Proto-Indo-European roots include <strong>courier<\/strong>, <strong>course<\/strong>, <strong>carry<\/strong>, <strong>charge<\/strong>, <strong>current<\/strong>, <strong>curriculum<\/strong>, <strong>cursive<\/strong>, <strong>cursor<\/strong>, <strong>horse<\/strong>, <strong>hurry<\/strong> and possibly <strong>rush<\/strong> (to hurry) in English; <strong>corriere<\/strong> (messenger, courier) in Italian, and <strong>courir<\/strong> (to run, hurry, rush) in French [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/karros\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesepod101.com\/member\/go.php?r=759259&amp;i=b0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/banners\/banner_japanesepod.jpg\" alt=\"The Fastest Way to Learn Japanese Guaranteed with JapanesePod101.com\" width=\"630\" height=\"83\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5001128073855040\"\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Blog horizontal --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5001128073855040\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1685480124\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the word cargo related to the word car? Let&#8217;s find out. Cargo [\u02c8k\u0251\u02d0\u0261\u0259\u028a \/ \u02c8k\u0251\u0279\u0261o\u028a] refers to freight carried by a ship, aircraft or motor vehicle. It comes from Spanish cargo (charge, burden, position, post), from cargar (to load, carry, charge), from Late Latin carric\u0101re, from carric\u014d (to load), from carrus (wagon, a two-wheeled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,85,92,102,104,107,111,114,128,10,302,15,26,41,43,45,64,67,77,78],"tags":[476,477,164,158,138,281,163],"class_list":["post-24155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albanian-shqip","category-anglo-norman","category-breton","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-gaulish","category-italian","category-language","category-late-latin","category-latin","category-middle-english","category-portuguese","category-proto-celtic","category-proto-indo-european","category-spanish","category-swedish","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases","tag-car","tag-cargo","tag-english","tag-etymology","tag-language","tag-omniglot","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24155"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24160,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24155\/revisions\/24160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}