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to kirk, kork, korken
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And it's already coming true: https://lemmy.world/post/50821812
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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/