Re: [tied] Cyriaca

From: Max Dashu
Message: 7087
Date: 2001-04-13

>Does anyone in the forum know the origin of the Germanic words for
>church? In another discussion group, someone told of a theory that
>they are borrowings from an unattested Latin form Cyriaca.

Sounds like Greek, of which I know little, but the word for Sunday is
Kyriaki. cf Kyrie.

Max Dashu