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- Middle English · inherited fromkyrkgarth
- English todaykirkgarth
From Middle English kyrkgarth; equivalent to kirk + garth. Directly cognate to Danish Kierkegaard, kirkegård, Faroese kirkjugarður, Icelandic kirkjugarður, Norwegian Bokmål kirkegård, Norwegian Nynorsk kyrkjegård, and Swedish kyrkogård.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.