The story
- Old English · derived fromċiriċe“church”
- English todayKirton
From Old English ċiriċe (“church”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). Doublet of Cheriton. The alteration of /tʃ/ to /k/ is down to Old Norse influence.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishċiriċe all →
churchKirkwoodKirkhamCheritonKirkupWoodkirk
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.