CAER

For the character in Irish mythology, see Caer Ibormeith.For the place in France, see Caer, France. In Welsh language, a caer or kaer was a royal residence during the 1st millennium AD or earlier. Caer can be loosely translated castle or palace or fort but no one English word captures the essence of a caer. A caer was home to a king, his royal family, and his retinue. This retinue was composed of the teulu, a warband of loyal retainers, a following of monks and scholars, and his chief advisers, and his bards who provided entertainment in music and poetry; together with their retinue of squires, artisans, servants, slaves and horses. Caers were famed for their great feasts that could last as long as a year, at which the kings and upper classes of two or several kingdoms would gather. Giving of feasts was a primary sign of wealth and status in Celtic society, at any rate in the fifth and sixth centuries.
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For the Welsh reflex of Roman castrum, see caer. In Irish mythology, Caer Ibormeith was a daughter of Prince Ethal Anbuail of Sid Uamuin in Connacht. Every alternate Samhain she would change into a swan, in which form she would remain for a year before becoming human again the following Samhain. She eventually married Aengus, but first he had to pick her out, in swan form, from a group of one hundred and fifty other swans at Loch Bel Dragon (Now Lough Muskry in the Galtees.) Having chosen correctly, he turned into a swan himself and they flew away, singing beautiful music that put all its listeners asleep for three days and nights. With Aengus, Caer was the foster-mother of Diarmuid.
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v. fall; drop, tumble; plunge; decline; droop; sink; demise; catch on

[Celtic] An Irish swan maiden with whom Aengus (god of poetry) fell in love. He became a swan also.

= drop, fall, tumble, slump.
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* caer como moscas = drop like + flies.
* caer de cabeza = go over + Posesivo + head.
* caer de espaldas = fall on + Posesivo + back.
* caer dentro de = fall within/into, fall into.
* caer dentro de la competencia de = be the province of, fall within + the province of.
* caer de pie = land on + Posesivo + (own two) feet.
* caer deshecho = flake out.
* caer desplomado = slump in + a heap.
* caer en = run + foul of, lapse into, slip into.
* caer en batalla = fall in + battle.
* caer en combate = fall in + action.
* caer en descrédito = come into + disrepute, fall into + disrepute.
* caer en desgracia = fall from + grace, fall into + disfavour, tumble into + disgrace, come into + disrepute, fall into + disrepute.
* caer en desuso = fall into + disuse, fall out of + fashion, go out of + use, lapse, fall into + disfavour, die out, drop from + sight, go out of + favour, pass away, fall into + desuetude, fall into + desuetude, pass into + desuetude, sink into + desuetude, sink into + oblivion.
* caer en el error de = fall into + the error of.
* caer en el olvido = fall into + obscurity, fall into + oblivion, fade into + obscurity, fade into + oblivion.
* caer enfermo = become + ill, fall + ill, get + sick.
* caer en forma de cascada = cascade.
* caer en la cuenta = dawn on, wise up, the penny dropped, suss (out).
* caer en la cuenta de = realise [realize, -USA].
* caer en la oscuridad = fall into + obscurity, sink into + oblivion, sink into + obscurity, fade into + obscurity, fade into + oblivion.
* caer en la trampa = fall into + the trap, fall for + it.
* caer en manos de = fall into + the hands of.
* caer en manos enemigas = fall into + enemy hands.
* caer en oídos sordos = fall on + deaf ears, meet + deaf ears.
* caer en picado = plummet, swoop.
* caer en redondo = flake out.
* caer en terreno pedregoso = fall on + stony ground.
* caer en una trampa = tumble into + pitfall.
* caer en un hábito = lapse into + habit.
* caer fuera de = fall outside, lie beyond.
* caer fuera del alcance de = fall outside + the scope of.
* caer fuera de las responsabilidades de = be on the outer fringes of.
* caer fuera del interés de uno = fall outside + Posesivo + interest.
* caer fuera del objetivo de = fall outside + the scope of.
* caer hecho polvo = flake out.
* caer mal = rub + Nombre + up the wrong way.
* caer por selección = drop.
* caer presa de = fall + prey to, be prey of.
* caerse = fall out, fall off, tumble down, topple over, come + a cropper.
* caerse a = topple onto.
* caerse de = fall off of.
* caerse de bruces = fall + flat on + Posesivo + face.
* caerse de la cama = roll out of + bed.
* caerse muerto = drop + dead.
* comprar hasta caer muerto = shop 'til you drop.
* dejar caer = drop, dump.
* dejar caer insinuaciones = throw + hints.
* dejarse caer = drop by, drop in, slump.
* hacer caer = oust.
* maná caído del cielo = manna from heaven.
* no caer bien = not take + kindly to, not take + kindly to.
* no caer en buenas manos = fall into + the wrong hands.
* no tener donde caerse muerto = not have two pennies to rub together.
* palabras + caer en + saco roto = words + fall on + deaf ears.
* recesión + caer en = recession + set in.
* salir y caer = fall out (of).
* sistema + caerse = system + crash.
* telón + caer = curtain + fall.
* trabajar hasta caer muerto = work + Reflexivo + to the ground, work + Reflexivo + to death.
* volver a caer (en) = relapse (into).