kirkja
Faroese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse kirkja, borrowed from Old English cirice.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kirkja f (genitive singular kirkju, plural kirkjur)
Declension edit
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 edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse kirkja, from Old English cirice.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kirkja f (genitive singular kirkju, nominative plural kirkjur)
Declension edit
declension of kirkja
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ “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 edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse kirkja, or from kyrkja with influence from Danish kirke.
Noun edit
kirkja f (definite singular kirkja, indefinite plural kirkjer or kirkjor, definite plural kirkjene or kirkjone)
- (nonstandard or dialectal) alternative form of kyrkje (“church”)
Old Norse edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
kirkja f (genitive kirkju, plural kirkjur)
- church (Christian house of worship)
Declension edit
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 edit
- Icelandic: kirkja
- Faroese: kirkja
- Norn: kirka
- Middle Norwegian: kyrkja, kirkja
- Jamtish: kyrkje
- Old Swedish: kyrkia, kirkia
- Swedish: kyrka
- Old Danish: kyrkiæ, kirkæ
- → Northern Middle English: kyrke (or from Old English cirice)
References edit
- “kirkja”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press