kirkgarth

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   in Northern English dialect, a churchyard or the enclosed ground around a church

   The mourners crossed the kirkgarth and gathered beside the old church.

From Middle English kyrkgarth, a compound of kirk ("church") + garth ("enclosed yard"). Both elements have deep northern Germanic histories, and closely related compounds remain in modern Scandinavian languages.

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