chirche
See also: Chirche
English
Noun
chirche (plural chirches)
- Obsolete spelling of church.
Middle English
Alternative forms
- cherch, cherche, chirch, chorche, church, churche, chyrch, chyrche, kirke, kyrk, kyrke, schyrsche
- chireche, chiriche, circe, cyrce (Early Middle English)
Etymology
From Old English ċiriċe,[1] from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, borrowed from Ancient Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃirt͡ʃ(ə)/, /ˈt͡ʃɛrt͡ʃ(ə)/, (Southern, Southwest Midland) /ˈt͡ʃurt͡ʃ(ə)/[2]
- IPA(key): /kirk/ (Northern)
Noun
chirche (plural chirches or chirchen)
- church, cathedral
- p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2018 February 8:
- Foꝛ ouer ſithon ne · foꝛ baren. hi nouther circe ne cyrceiard. oc namen al þe god ð þar inne ƿaſ. ⁊ brenden ſythen þe cyrce ⁊ al te gædere.
- Because after a while, they spared neither churches or churchyards, but stole all the valuables within them before burning the church and everything in it.
- temple, synagogue
- clergy, priests
- religious organisation or community
- Christendom, the whole of Christianity
- The Roman Catholic Church
- A regional branch of Christianity
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: church
- English: (Ottawa-Valley) chirch, cheirch
- Geordie: chorch, kirk
- Scots: kirk
- Yola: chourch
References
- ^ “chirche, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 26 March 2018.
- ^ McIntosh, Angus; Samuels, M[ichael] L.; Benskin, Michael (2013) [1986], Michael Benskin, Margaret Laing, editors, eLALME: A Linguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English[1], Edinburgh: Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics; revised 2024 November.