Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
to experience intense neck pain and/or incapacitated by it · to hit someone in the neck (stings, hickeys etc) · to kill
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA church.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁ryós Proto-Hellenic *kúrios Ancient Greek κῡ́ριος (kū́rios) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ακός (-akós) Koine Greek κῡριακός (kūriakós)nom. Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Hellenic *-on Ancient Greek -ον (-on) Koine Greek κῡρῐᾰκόν (kūrĭăkón)bor. Proto-West Germanic *kirikā Old English ċiriċebor. Old Norse kirkjabor. Northern Middle English kirke English kirk Inherited from Northern Middle English kirke, borrowed from Old Norse kirkja, borrowed from Old English ċiriċe, from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, borrowed from Koine Greek κῡρῐᾰκόν (kūrĭăkón), a nominalization of κῡριακός (kūriakós), or from Ancient Greek -ον (-on). Doublet of church. Verb sense comes from assassination of American right-wing activist Charlie Kirk by a neck snipe on September 10th, 2025.
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