sark
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English serk, sark, serke, from Old English serc, syrc m; and syrce, sirce, serce f (“sark, shirt, shift, smock, tunic, corselet, coat of mail”), from Proto-West Germanic *sarki, from Proto-Germanic *sarkiz (“shirt, armour, hauberk”), from Proto-Indo-European *swerg-, *swerk- (“clothes worn outside”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to arrange, tack, tie, unite”).
Cognate with Scots sark, serk (“shirt, shift”), North Frisian serk (“shirt”), Danish særk (“gown, shirt”), Swedish särk (“shirt, chemise”), Icelandic serkur (“nightshirt”).
Noun edit
sark (plural sarks)
- (Scotland and Northern England) A shirt or smock.
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- The next thing the watchers saw was the laird struggling up the far bank and casting his coat from him, so that he rode in his sark.
- 2007, Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials, Bluefire, →ISBN, page 259:
- Then lorek's rear claws dug into the links of Iofur's chain-mail sark and ripped downward. The whole front came away, and Iofur lurched sideways to look at the damage, leaving lorek to scramble upright again.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
sark (third-person singular simple present sarks, present participle sarking, simple past and past participle sarked)
- (transitive) To cover with sarking, or thin boards.
Anagrams edit
Hungarian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sark (plural sarkok)
- pole (an extreme point of an axis, e.g. magnetically or geographically)
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | sark | sarkok |
accusative | sarkot | sarkokat |
dative | sarknak | sarkoknak |
instrumental | sarkkal | sarkokkal |
causal-final | sarkért | sarkokért |
translative | sarkká | sarkokká |
terminative | sarkig | sarkokig |
essive-formal | sarkként | sarkokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | sarkban | sarkokban |
superessive | sarkon | sarkokon |
adessive | sarknál | sarkoknál |
illative | sarkba | sarkokba |
sublative | sarkra | sarkokra |
allative | sarkhoz | sarkokhoz |
elative | sarkból | sarkokból |
delative | sarkról | sarkokról |
ablative | sarktól | sarkoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
sarké | sarkoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
sarkéi | sarkokéi |
Possessive forms of sark | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | sarkom | sarkaim |
2nd person sing. | sarkod | sarkaid |
3rd person sing. | sarka | sarkai |
1st person plural | sarkunk | sarkaink |
2nd person plural | sarkotok | sarkaitok |
3rd person plural | sarkuk | sarkaik |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- sark in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Middle English edit
Noun edit
sark
- Alternative form of serk
North Frisian edit
Etymology edit
From Old Frisian zerke, from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā. Cognates include Mooring North Frisian schörk and West Frisian tsjerke.
Noun edit
sark f (plural sarken)
- (Föhr-Amrum) church
- At St. Clemens sark as en sark uun Neebel üüb Oomram.
- Saint Clement's Church is a church in Nebel on Amrum.
- At St. Clemens sark as en sark uun Neebel üüb Oomram.
Scots edit
Etymology edit
From Old English serc, syrc, sierce, from Germanic.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sark (plural sarks)
Derived terms edit
- cutty sark (“short chemise or undergarment”)
- sarkfu (“shirtful”)
- sarkin (“coarse linen for shirts; roof boarding”)
Verb edit
sark (third-person singular simple present sarks, present participle sarkin, simple past sarkit, past participle sarkit)
Tocharian A edit
Etymology edit
Compare Tocharian B serke.
Noun edit
sark
Tocharian B edit
Noun edit
sark
- back (of the body)
Volapük edit
Noun edit
sark (nominative plural sarks)