Chirche

See also: chirche

Alemannic German

Alternative forms
  • Chirchä, Chircha
  • Chilä, Chile, Chille (Aargau, Basel, Bern, Fribourg, Lucerne, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Uri, Zug, St Gallen (Amden), Zurich)
  • Chilche (Aargau, Basel, Bern, Fribourg, Glarus, Grisons, Nidwalden, St Gallen, Tessin, Schwyz, Solothurn, Thurgau, Valais, Zurich (Weinland))
  • Chüuche, Chüucha (Bern, Fribourg)

Etymology

From Middle High German kirche, from Old High German kirihha, from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈχir.χə/, /ˈχɪr.χə/

Noun

Chirche f (plural Chirchene or Chirche, diminutive Chirchli)

  1. church
    • 1979, Zeitschrift für Kultur und Politik und Kirche‎, volume 28, Evangelische-kirchliche Vereinigung in der Schweiz, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 639:
      Aber mi dünkt, mängisch sige üsi Chirchene wie nes Museum. […] Üsi Chirchene es Museum, wo mir Jesus ufbewahre: zum Bispil a dr Kanzel hets es Chrüz, es Symbol für Jesus.
      But I have the impression, sometimes our churches are like a museum. […] Our churches a museum where we preserve Jesus: for example at the pulpit there's a cross, a symbol for Jesus.
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