kirkja

From Old Norse kirkja, borrowed from Old English cirice.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃʰɪr̥t͡ʃa/
• Rhymes: -ɪr̥t͡ʃa
• Homophone: kyrkja

kirkja f (genitive singular kirkju, plural kirkjur)

1. church

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈcʰɪr̥ca/
• Rhymes: -ɪr̥ca
• Homophone: kyrkja

kirkja f (genitive singular kirkju, nominative plural kirkjur)

1. church

• aðalkirkja
• dómkirkja
• forkirkja
• kirkjuskip

From Old Norse kirkja, or from kyrkja with influence from Danish kirke.

kirkja f (definite singular kirkja, indefinite plural kirkjer or kirkjor, definite plural kirkjene or kirkjone)

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

• kyrkja

Borrowed from Old English cirice, from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, from Byzantine Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón, “Lord's house”), from Ancient Greek κύριος (kúrios, “lord”).

kirkja f (genitive kirkju, plural kirkjur)

1. church (Christian house of worship)

• Icelandic: kirkja
• Faroese: kirkja
• Norn: kirka
• Middle Norwegian: kyrkja, kirkja
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kyrkja, kyrkje; (dialectal) kirkja, kirkj’, kjørkje, kjærkja, kjèrke, kjérsk’
    • Russenorsk: Kjerka
• Jamtish: kyrkje
• Old Swedish: kyrkia, kirkia
  • Swedish: kyrka
• Old Danish: kyrkiæ, kirkæ
  • Danish: kirke m
    • Norwegian Bokmål: kirke m or f
• → Northern Middle English: kyrke (or from Old English cirice)
  • Scots: kirk
  • English: kirk

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “kirkja”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive