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[–] 21 points 2 months ago (10 children)

IIRC, Kirk means Church in the North Germanic languages. I'm not sure how the various OE varieties spelled it. I'm not sure what they would make of that.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    I would assume that using kirk as a slang verb would mean to "send someone to church" which is where they would have their funeral.

    In the additional image in OP, it's used in reference to the assassination where he got shot, and the kid is using it to mean someone got sniped in the video game.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago*

    Eeeeh almost, most germanic languages have a very similar word but "church" is only "kirk" in some specific areas.
    The actual root would be kirikā from proto-west germanic.

    In modern swedish it's "kyrka", pronounced roughly /shir-ka/

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I once heard a story of whoever ruled the Netherlands suddenly deciding everyone should have a last name (and the deadline was extremely sudden), so you have a lot of nonsensical names from that region.

    Carlson, Erikson (Xson), Slettenhar (slut's hair), Naaktgeboren (born naked) .etc .etc where a head of the household just brainstormed a literal shit post last name for their family (a lot of the vulgar ones were made in protest iirc)

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    In danish at least it is “Kirke”, so missing the -e, but nearly yes. I think it very much can be understood to have the meaning of Church. In german there’s Kirche, so again close.

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