Talk:Kirk

message: Kirk is ultimately Norse in origin? It seems to be a variation on the same theme as church and to be Greek in origin.  Laurel Bush 09:27, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, I just noticed this.  Yes, of course it is of Greek origin.  But it came into Germanic, probably through Gothic, and has forms with k- in all continental Germanic languages.  Old English palatalisation changed it to ch-, and this should normally also be ch- in Scots, if the usual rules applied.  Child, cheese and chick were likewise palatalised in earliest English (cf German: Kind, Käse, Küken), and all the Scots forms related to them have the palatalised ch-.  But Scots has many Norse loan-words, which explains how in this case it has the unpalatalised form.  So, yes, Greek, but via Norse.  --Doric Loon 11:23, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

text: Mind you - Scots also has many borrowings from early Dutch, like coft ('bought') in the 15th century.  The dictionaries don't mention this possibility, but I don't actually see why it couldn't equally well come from the Netherlands.  But at any rate, it is definately a loanword from continental Germanic.  --Doric Loon 19:26, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

text: OK, I withdraw that Dutch hypothesis - it was just an unconsidered thought, and on further checking it doesn't hold up.  The element kirk is found in place names far earlier than the earliest attested reference to it as a common noun, and thus it predates the earliest possible borrowing from Dutch.  Also, it is found mainly in areas with a strong Viking influence on the language generally, and is found at a very early date in names like Kirkby where the other element is definitely Norse.  So that seems to clinch it.  But I still don't have a solution to the problem of why such a word would be borrowed from Norse at a time when the Vikings weren't Christians.  Anyone got any ideas?  --Doric Loon 01:06, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Etymology

message: Hey, Mais oui, thanks for that very useful section.--Doric Loon 18:32, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You're welcome. This page is becoming quite good. It will surely soon be a "Featured Article" ;) Mais oui! 19:39, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: High Kirk

message: Is this really still a disambiguation page?  --Doric Loon 18:24, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Not really, no. Perhaps we should just put normal categories on it and then initiate a Kirk (disambiguation) page?--Mais oui! 19:42, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks like an interesting case of a disambig page that is migrating into an article. It started out as a redirect to a user page, then a redirect to Star Trek's James T. Kirk. Even the version from a year ago, was still primarily a disambig for everyone's favourite starship captain. Now it is more fixed on the Scottish church. -- Solipsist 20:01, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've restored + expanded the actual disambig page, and trimmed this so that it falls 100% into article category--205.188.116.66 21:48, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I may have made a slight mess of things, but I think I've made overall positive changes, although the disambig page might be a bit non-stanbard--205.188.116.66 21:53, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambig?

message: I can't see the rationale behind this proposal, as it's a question of two institutions with separate histories, each of which deserves its own explanation. Quite apart from the technical difficulties involved in providing a single narrative, it hardly does justice historically to the separation in the first place (still maintained by part of the Free Church). Would anyone suggest merging the history of the German Federal Republic with the history of the German Democratic Republic in the period 1949-89, now that they have rejoined, or would one continue to treat them historically as separate subjects? Kim Traynor (talk) 22:18, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. The point is, Free Kirk is a disambig article. If somebody enters "Free Kirk" they are wanting one of the two articles on the Free church. Giving them the opportunity to click forward to the one they want is the most helpful solution. --Doric Loon (talk) 01:06, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: A quarter of a year on, nobody has given an argument supporting this merge, so I have now removed the merge tag from the top of the page.--Doric Loon (talk) 10:27, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

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