Description:

The term 'car' is the anatomical term for a bone in its base meaning, and originally in Old Common was not used as a verb. Early speakers of Common, probably influenced by other languages including English, started using it as a word meaning erect penis. As a verb it is an intransitive pali verb with an absolutive subject who is the one who gets an erection. It can mean to desire sex in general, so it would also make sense to use with a female referent. As a modifier 'carys', it means desiring sex, or horny.

The compound forms 'car xof' and 'car hilin' are used as words for 'skeleton'. The latter tends to be used for a set of connected bones of an individual just lying around, and the latter to describe the bones of a living organism in vivo,