Kirk

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Middle English: from Old Norse kirkja, from Old English cirice (see church).

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Either from Old Norse kirkja (Middle English kyrke) or Old English cirice.

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kirk (n.)

"church,"c. 1200, surviving as a northern England and Scottish dialectal word, from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse kirkja "church" (see church (n.)). Hence kirkland "church land" (mid-15c.).