Lark Definition
A surname, from lark as a byname or for a catcher and seller of larks.
A patronymic surname shortened from Larkin, a medieval diminutive of Laurence.
- impulsively; without forethought
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Origin of Lark
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From Middle English larke, laverke, from Old English lāwerce, lÇ£werce, lāuricæ, from Proto-Germanic *laiwazikÇ (compare dialectal West Frisian larts, Dutch leeuwerik, German Lerche), from *laiwaz (borrowed into Finnish leivo, Estonian lõo), of unknown ultimate origin with no known cognates outside of Germanic.
From Wiktionary
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a shortening of skylark (1809), sailors' slang, "play roughly in the rigging of a ship", because the common European larks were proverbial for high-flying; Dutch has a similar idea in speelvogel (“playbird, a person of markedly playful nature").
From Wiktionary
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from a northern English dialectal term lake/laik (“to play") (around 1300, from Old Norse leika (“to play (as opposed to work)")), with an intrusive -r- as is common in southern British dialects; or
From Wiktionary
Short for skylark to frolic or alteration of dialectal lake play (from Middle English leik, laik) (from Old Norse leikr)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English laveroc, larke from Old English lāwerce
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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