Meaning and Origin
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User Submitted Origins
Etymology: Perh fr. AS. lāc play, sport. Cf. Lake (v. i.)
Note: ☞ The European skylark, or lark of the poets (Alauda arvensis), is of a brown mottled color, and is noted for its clear and sweet song, uttered as it rises and descends almost perpendicularly in the air. It is considered a table delicacy, and immense numbers are killed for the markets. Other well-known European species are the crested, or tufted, lark (Alauda cristata), and the wood lark (Alauda arborea). The pipits, or titlarks, of the genus Anthusfamily Motacillidæ) are often called larks. See Pipit. The American meadow larks, of the genus Sturnella, are allied to the starlings. See Meadow Lark. The Australian bush lark is Mirafra Horsfieldii. See Shore lark.
Etymology: OE. larke laverock, AS. lāwerce; akin to D. leeuwerik, LG. lewerke, OHG. lērahha, G. lerche, Sw. lärka, Dan. lerke, Icel. lævirki
- Any carefree episode
- Any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing
- A songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage
- North American songbirds having a yellow breast
- Play boisterously
- 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.
- A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.
- A female given name from English from the lark bird.
- A river in England, on the border between Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.