Where does “kirkegjenger” come from?
kirkegjenger (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Norwegian Bokmål kirke, 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.
kirkegjenger (Norwegian Bokmål): a churchgoer
Ancestry of “kirkegjenger”, step by step