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style="min-width:728px;min-height:90px"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa"><div><div class="" style="position:relative"><h1 title="Origin and meaning of sark" class="word__name--TTbAA">sark<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)</h1><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH"><p>"shirt, chemise, body garment of linen or cotton for either sex," Middle English <span class="foreign notranslate">serk</span>, late Old English <span class="foreign notranslate">serc</span> "shirt, corselet, coat of mail," surviving as a Scottish and northern dialect word. It is either the Old English word influenced in pronunciation and spelling by its Old Norse cognate <span class="foreign notranslate">serkr</span>, or that word in place of the native one. A general Germanic word (see <a href="/word/shirt" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of shirt " class="crossreference notranslate">shirt</a> and also compare <a href="/word/berserk" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of berserk " class="crossreference notranslate">berserk</a>.</p></section><span></span></div></div></div><div class="related--32LCi"><h3 class="h3_title" title="words related to sark">Entries linking to <i>sark</i></h3><div class="related__details--2kumU"><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of berserk" href="/word/berserk#etymonline_v_11064">berserk<!-- --> <!-- -->(adj.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>1844, from <span class="foreign notranslate">berserk</span> (n.) "Norse warrior" (by 1835), an alternative form of <a href="/word/berserker" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of berserker " class="crossreference notranslate">berserker</a>, a word which was introduced (as <span class="foreign notranslate">berserkar</span>) by Sir Walter Scott in "The Pirate" (1822), from Old Norse <span class="foreign notranslate">berserkr</span> (n.) "raging warrior of superhuman strength." It is probably from <span class="foreign notranslate">*ber-</span> "bear" + <span class="foreign notranslate">serkr</span> "shirt," thus literally "a warrior clothed in bearskin" (see <a href="/word/bear#etymonline_v_8204" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of bear " class="crossreference notranslate">bear</a> (n.) + <a href="/word/sark" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of sark " class="crossreference notranslate">sark</a>). Thus not, as Scott evidently believed, from Old Norse <span class="foreign notranslate">berr</span> "bare, naked" and meaning "warrior who fights without armor."</p> <blockquote> Thorkelin, in the essay on the Berserkir, appended to his edition of the <span class="foreign notranslate">Kristni Saga</span>, tells that an old name of the Berserk frenzy was <span class="foreign notranslate">hamremmi</span>, i.e., strength acquired from another strange body, because it was anciently believed that the persons who were liable to this frenzy were mysteriously endowed, during its accesses, with a strange body of unearthly strength. If, however, the Berserk was called on by his own name, he lost his mysterious form, and his ordinary strength alone remained. [Notes and Queries, Dec. 28, 1850] </blockquote> <p>Perhaps later writers mistook the <span class="foreign notranslate">-r</span> for an agent-noun suffix. The picture is further complicated because it has the form of the Old Norse plural, and English <span class="foreign notranslate">berserker</span> sometimes is plural. The adjectival use probably grew from such phrases as <span class="foreign notranslate">berserk frenzy</span>, or as a title (<span class="foreign notranslate">Arngrim the Berserk</span>).</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of shirt" href="/word/shirt#etymonline_v_23413">shirt<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>Middle English <span class="foreign notranslate">shirt</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">shirte</span>, "garment for the upper body worn next to the skin," from Old English <span class="foreign notranslate">scyrte</span>, from Proto-Germanic <span class="foreign notranslate">*skurtjon</span> "a short garment" (source also of Old Norse <span class="foreign notranslate">skyrta</span>, Swedish <span class="foreign notranslate">skjorta</span> "skirt, kirtle;" Middle Dutch <span class="foreign notranslate">scorte</span>, Dutch <span class="foreign notranslate">schort</span> "apron;" Middle Low German <span class="foreign notranslate">schörte</span>, Middle High German <span class="foreign notranslate">schurz</span>, German <span class="foreign notranslate">Schurz</span> "apron"), which is perhaps related to Old English <span class="foreign notranslate">scort</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">sceort</span> "short," etc., from PIE root <a href="/word/*sker-#etymonline_v_52632" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of *sker- " rel="nofollow" class="crossreference notranslate">*sker-</a> (1) "to cut," on the notion of "a cut piece."</p> <p>OED notes that "the meaning of the word in OE. is obscure, as the only instance of its occurrence is a gloss in which the meaning of the Latin word was probably not understood." Lithuanian <span class="foreign notranslate">šarkas</span> "shirt," Old Church Slavonic <span class="foreign notranslate">sraka</span> "tunic," Russian <span class="foreign notranslate">soročka</span>, Finnish <span class="foreign notranslate">sarkki</span> "shirt" perhaps are from Germanic.</p> <p>Formerly of the chief under-garment worn by both men and women, but in modern use it has long been only that for men; in reference to women's tops, the word was reintroduced 1896.</p> <p><span class="foreign notranslate"><strong>Bloody shirt</strong></span>, a blood-stained shirt exposed as a symbol of some outrage, to arouse indignation or resentment, is attested from 1580s, usually figurative. Shirt since late 14c. often has been figurative of one's goods or possessions, hence <span class="foreign notranslate"><strong>give (someone) the shirt off one's back</strong></span> (1771); <span class="foreign notranslate"><strong>lose one's shirt</strong></span> "suffer total financial loss" (1935). To <span class="foreign notranslate"><strong>keep one's shirt on</strong></span> "be patient" (1904) is from the notion of (not) stripping down for a fight.</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of undershirt" href="/word/undershirt#etymonline_v_25155">undershirt<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>"shirt or similar garment worn beneath another shirt and next to the skin," 1640s, from <a href="/word/under" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of under " class="crossreference notranslate">under</a> (adj.) + <a href="/word/shirt#etymonline_v_23413" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of shirt " class="crossreference notranslate">shirt</a> (n.). Similar formation in North Frisian <span class="foreign notranslate">onnersjürt</span>, Danish <span class="foreign notranslate">underskjorte</span>. Old English had <span class="foreign notranslate">undersyrc</span> (see <a href="/word/sark#etymonline_v_22743" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of sark " class="crossreference notranslate">sark</a> (n.)).</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div></div><div data-ad-container="true" class="adContainer--6CVz1 vertical" style="margin-top:1em"><span class="adLabel--35hfi">Advertisement</span><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7093273770345366" style="display:block;width:100%" data-ad-slot="8757723469" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins></div><div class="ngram--SmXCf"><h3 class="h3_title" title="Trends of sark">Trends of <i>sark</i></h3><div class="ngram__container--NwjaG" style="height:180px"><canvas id="ngram-chart"></canvas></div><div class="ngram__footer--3-9dX">adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/. 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