Word Origin Summary

*kirikā is attested in Proto-West Germanic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• קירך

  YID · inherited from

• kirk

  English · derived from

• church

  English · inherited from

• Ridderkerk

  Dutch · inherited from

• kirkja

  Icelandic · derived from

• kirihha

  Old High German · inherited from

• tchalitchi

  Chewa · borrowed from

• Kirk Hammerton

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root