larke

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English lāwerce, from Proto-Germanic *laiwarikǭ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlark(ə)/, /ˈlavərk(ə)/, /ˈlavərtʃ(ə)/

Noun

larke (plural larkes)

  1. skylark (Alauda arvensis)
  2. The meat of a skylark.

Descendants

  • English: lark, laverock, lavrock
  • Scots: lark, lork, laveirk, laverok
  • Yola: lereke, lerock

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.