Kyrk

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of kirk. Northern-England, Scotland, alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "Saint Ambroſe, when the Emperor invaded his Kyrk, and the people were ready to make reſcue, ſo farre as that the Invaders could not have ſuſtained their force ; […]"

Etymology

From Northern Middle English kyrk, kyrke, from chirche, from Old English ċiriċe (“church”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, an early borrowing of Ancient Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón).

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