Faroese

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Viðareiðis kirkja - the church of Viðareiði.
 
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Etymology

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From Old Norse kirkja, borrowed from Old English cirice.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kirkja f (genitive singular kirkju, plural kirkjur)

  1. church

Declension

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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

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Etymology

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From Old Norse kirkja, from Old English cirice.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kirkja f (genitive singular kirkju, nominative plural kirkjur)

  1. church

Declension

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ “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

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Old Norse kirkja, or from kyrkja with influence from Danish kirke.

Noun

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kirkja f (definite singular kirkja, indefinite plural kirkjer or kirkjor, definite plural kirkjene or kirkjone)

  1. (nonstandard or dialectal) alternative form of kyrkje (church)

Old Norse

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed 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

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kirkja f (genitive kirkju, plural kirkjur)

  1. church (Christian house of worship)

Declension

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Descendants

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References

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  • kirkja”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press