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KiLLEEBT. 



A probable conjecture seems to be that whicb assimilates this 

 name to that of CuUercoats in ^Northumberland — e.g. Culverby— 

 A.-S. culfra, pigeon or dove, and Dan. hj, a place of abode. 



In " Mumford's INames of INorf oik " there is a place named 

 Kilverstone, which appears in Domesday Book as Culnertestuna. 

 Why not Killerby = Culverby ? 



It can hardly be from Gael, cil, a cell, a church, or from hirh, 

 like Jcirhher. 



Possibly from Dan. hulde, cold, coldness ; Icel. hjlr, gust of 

 cold air (like our caller) ; A.-S. cyle, cold, and ly, dwelling, from 

 its situation ; or from Suio-Goth. and Sw. hil, and Dan. Idle, 

 cuneus, wedge, and hj, a dwelling, perhaps on an angular or 

 wedge-shaped piece of land. It appears to have had a Scandi- 

 navian origin. 



Kirk. 



Icel. hirhja, church (the church, Ecclesia. Cleasby) ; Suio-Goth. 

 Tcyrha; Dan. Icirke; Sw. hjrha; Ger. Mrche; Dut. and Flem. herk. 



A.-S. circe, cirice, cyrice, cyrece, cyrce, cyric, Bosw. {circ, ecclesia. 

 Lye), church, temple; Corn, eglos, egles, eglis, eglys; Bret. iliz. 



"Wei. eglwys, llan; Gael, eaglais, cil; Ir, eaglais ; Manx agglish. 



Lat. ecclesia., an assembly, a church. 



It. chiesa; Sp. iglesia ; Port, igreja. 



Pr. eglise ; "'BroYenf^. gleiza, glieyza; Esp, iglesia; Port, igreja; 

 It. chiesa, du Latin ecclesia, du Grec eKKXrja-ia, eglise, propre- 

 ment assemblee, de ck et KaX^Hv, convoquer." Littre. 



In Prance kirk appears in Querqueville, Carqueville, and in 

 Dunkerque, and Dunquerqueville in Belgium. 



" Gr. 'iKKXrjCTia, templum, sedes sacra. The Church, either 

 the body or the place." Liddell and Scott. " To KvpiaKov., The 

 Lord's House, is commonly assumed to be the original of the Teu- 

 tonic kirche, kirk, church, but this is not universally admitted." 

 Ibid. 



" The etymology of kirk, from Kvpiov oikos, is a mere fancy, 

 unsupported by any history or analogy." Edmunds, 



