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• kyrk (obsolete)

語源

Inherited from Northern 中期英語 kyrke, from either Old Norse kirkja or 古期英語 ċiriċe. Doublet of church.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kɜːk/
• (General American) IPA: /kɜɹk/
• (Northumbria) IPA: /kɔʶːk/
• (Scotland) IPA: /kɪɾk/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)k

名詞

kirk (plural kirks)

1. (Northern England and Scotland) A church.
   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

     The Ship was cheer'd, the Harbour clear'd— / Merrily did we drop / Below the Kirk, below the Hill, / Below the Light-house top.

   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     When she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her.

   • 1941 January, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The Scottish Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 3:

     But long, long ago an enthusiastic reporter called it a "fairy palace," and the office building on the west side was once a church. Hence, in North British phraseology, to "gang tae the Kirk" meant to be had up on the carpet.

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