kirk

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a Scottish church

   The village gathered at the kirk on Sunday morning.

Simplified etymology

Kirk, the Scots form related to church, is recorded from Middle English. Like Old English circe or cirice, German Kirche, and Dutch kerk, it ultimately derives from medieval Greek kurikon, from kuriakon dōma, “the Lord’s house.”

From Middle English kirk, borrowed from Old Norse kirkja, meaning church. It is cognate with the standard English word church.

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