Where does “kirkjuendir” come from?
kirkjuendir (Icelandic) comes from Icelandic kirkja, from Old Norse kirkja, from Old English ċiriċe, from Proto-West Germanic kirikā, from Ancient Greek κυριακόν, from Ancient Greek Κύριος, from Proto-Hellenic *kúrios.
kirkjuendir (Icelandic): plagal cadence
Ancestry of “kirkjuendir”, step by step