Noun: lark
Sample Sentences
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Charles Randolph Grean is married to pop lark and multi-hit artist Betty Johnson. [1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 238:]
Nouns inflected like lark
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English larke, laverke, from Old English lāwerce, lǣwerce, lāuricæ, from Proto-West Germanic *laiwaʀikā, from Proto-Germanic *laiwazikǭ (compare dialectal West Frisian larts, Dutch leeuwerik, German Lerche), from *laiwaz (borrowed into Finnish leivo, Estonian lõo), of unknown ultimate origin with no definitive cognates outside of Germanic. See: Middle English Nouns '
larke', Old English Nouns '
lāwerce', Dutch Nouns '
leeuwerik', German Nouns '
Lerche', Finnish Nouns '
leivo'.
Verbs referencing "lark"
German Nouns
Lerche.