kirkgarth

From Middle English kyrkgarth; equivalent to kirk +‎ garth. Directly cognate to Danish Kierkegaard, kirkegård, Faroese kirkjugarður, Icelandic kirkjugarður, Norwegian Bokmål kirkegård, Norwegian Nynorsk kyrkjegård, and Swedish kyrkogård.

kirkgarth (plural kirkgarths)

1. (Northern England dialect) A churchyard.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “kirkgarth”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

kirkgarth (plural kirkgarths)

1. alternative spelling of kyrkgarth

• “kirk-garth, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.