--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> It most likely derives from the Greek adjective kuriakó- 'of the
Lord', from <kurios>, elliptic for "the house of the lord"
(<kuriakón> is attested with this meaning). The Germanic forms go
back to something like *kiri:k-o:n- ~ -jo:n-
I think you would find it difficult to derive Swedish <kyrka> from
that form.
Torsten
(Gk. u was a front vowel) with weak f. endings (OE cirice ~ cyrce,
OHG chirîhha, OS kirika, ON kirkja > Northern English kirk). The word
was further borrowed from Germanic sources by the Slavs and the Finns.
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