kirkja
Faroese
Viðareiðis kirkja - the church of Viðareiði.
Etymology
From Old Norse kirkja, borrowed from Old English cirice.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃʰɪr̥t͡ʃa/
- Rhymes: -ɪr̥t͡ʃa
- Homophone: kyrkja
Noun
kirkja f (genitive singular kirkju, plural kirkjur)
- church
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
- IPA(key): /ˈcʰɪr̥ca/
- Rhymes: -ɪr̥ca
- Homophone: kyrkja
Noun
kirkja f (genitive singular kirkju, nominative plural kirkjur)
- church
Declension
declension of kirkja
| f-w1 | 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 |
Derived terms
- aðalkirkja
- dómkirkja
- forkirkja
- kirkjuskip
References
- “On Icelandic”, in (please provide the title of the work), accessed 6 September 2011, archived from the original on 2014-03-08
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse kirkja, or from kyrkja with influence from Danish kirke.
Noun
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
Alternative forms
- kyrkja
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
- Middle Norwegian: kyrkja, kirkja
- Norwegian Nynorsk: kyrkja, kyrkje; (dialectal) kirkja, kirkj’, kjørkje, kjærkja, kjèrke, kjérsk’
- Jamtish: kyrkje
- Westrobothnian: kjȯrk
- Old Swedish: kyrkia, kirkia
- Swedish: kyrka
- Old Danish: kyrkiæ, kirkæ
- Danish: kirke m
- Norwegian Bokmål: kirke m or f
- Danish: kirke m
- → Northern Middle English: kyrke (or from Old English cirice)
- Scots: kirk
- English: kirk
References
- “kirkja”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press