kirkja
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse kirkja, from Old English cirice, from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā (whence also Old High German chirihha), from Byzantine Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón) (δόμα) ‘Lord's (house)’, from Ancient Greek κύριος (kúrios, “lord”).
Pronunciation
Noun
kirkja f (genitive singular kirkju, plural kirkjur)
Declension
| Declension of kirkja | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | singular | plural | ||
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | kirkja | kirkjan | kirkjur | kirkjurnar |
| accusative | kirkju | kirkjuna | kirkjur | kirkjurnar |
| dative | kirkju | kirkjuni | kirkjum | kirkjunum |
| genitive | kirkju | kirkjunnar | kirkja | kirkjanna |
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse kirkja, from Old English cirice.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
kirkja f (genitive singular kirkju, nominative plural kirkjur)
Declension
declension of kirkja
Derived terms
References
- ^ “On Icelandic”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 2011 September 6 (last accessed), archived from the original on 8 March 2014
Old Norse
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English cirice, from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, from Byzantine Greek κυριακόν (δόμα) (kuriakón (dóma), “Lord's (house)”), from Ancient Greek κύριος (kúrios, “lord”).
Noun
kirkja f (genitive kirkju, plural kirkjur)
- church (Christian house of worship)
Declension
Declension of kirkja (weak jōn-stem)
| feminine | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | kirkja | kirkjan | kirkjur | kirkjurnar |
| accusative | kirkju | kirkjuna | kirkjur | kirkjurnar |
| dative | kirkju | kirkjunni | kirkjum | kirkjunum |
| genitive | kirkju | kirkjunnar | kirkna | kirknanna |
Descendants
- Icelandic: kirkja
- Faroese: kirkja
- Norn: kirka
- Norwegian:
- Jamtish: kyrke
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- Old Swedish: kyrkia, kirkia
- Swedish: kyrka
- Old Danish: kyrkiæ, kirkæ
- Danish: kirke
- → English: kirk
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- → Scots: kirk (or from Old English cirice)
- → English: kirk (or from Old English cirice)
References
- “kirkja”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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- Faroese terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Faroese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Faroese/ɪr̥t͡ʃa
- Faroese terms with homophones
- Faroese lemmas
- Faroese nouns
- Faroese feminine nouns
- fo:Christianity
- Icelandic terms inherited from Old Norse
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- Icelandic 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Icelandic/ɪr̥ca
- Icelandic terms with homophones
- Icelandic lemmas
- Icelandic nouns
- Icelandic feminine nouns
- Icelandic countable nouns
- is:Christianity
- Old Norse terms derived from Old English
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- Old Norse terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Old Norse lemmas
- Old Norse nouns
- Old Norse feminine nouns
- Old Norse jōn-stem nouns
- non:Christianity