kirkja

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Faroese

Viðareiðis kirkja - the church of Viðareiði.
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Etymology

From Old Norse kirkja, borrowed from Old English cirice.

Pronunciation

Noun

kirkja f (genitive singular kirkju, plural kirkjur)

  1. 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

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Etymology

From Old Norse kirkja, from Old English cirice.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

kirkja f (genitive singular kirkju, nominative plural kirkjur)

  1. 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

References

  1. ^ “On Icelandic”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, 2011 September 6 (last accessed), archived from the original on 8 March 2014

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)

  1. (nonstandard or dialectal) alternative form of kyrkje (“church”)

Old Norse

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed 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)

  1. 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

References

  • “kirkja”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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