Where does “stavkirke” come from?
stavkirke (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.
stavkirke (Norwegian Bokmål): stave church
Ancestry of “stavkirke”, step by step