Noun: chirche
| Sg. | chirche |
| Pl. | chirches; chirchen |
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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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.) [p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 8 February 2018:]
Nouns inflected like chirche
scalle,
schire,
schete,
bente mone,
pantere,
newe mone,
schrewe,
schanke,
schafte,
morewetid sterre,
kidenere,
yong mone,
sorinesse,
chirche,
cold sterre,
crouche,
culvere,
blasynge sterre,
do,
to, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old English ċiriċe, from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, borrowed from Ancient Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón). See: Old English Nouns '
ċiriċe', Ancient Greek Nouns '
κυριακόν'.
Verbs referencing "chirche"
English Nouns
church.
Translations