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see "Behind My Name" for who nicknamed me "Kurky boy." see "Meaning of Name" for how Lithuanians, Dutch, Scottish, Cumberland English, and Persians mean "Kurk."
Kurk! yra liepiamoji veiksmažodžio „kurti“ forma lietuvių kalboje. It's Lithuanian! . Kurk betekent kurk in het Nederlands. It's Dutch! . In Scotland and among Cumbrary peasants of northern England, "kurk" means what Americans call "church" and "la iglesia"; here's from a Robert Anderson poem in his Cumberland lect: . "Furst helter skelter frae the kurk." . Kurk is the fine wool shorn from the undercoat of Kirmani goats in Iran, considered among the finest materials in the world, akin to Kashmiri products. Clearly, کورک, or Kurk, is Persian.
My own father nicknamed me "Kurky boy," his misspelling of how he heard his German mother saying, "Kirche." . "Gayle" is an Anglished version of the Hebrew girl's name, אֲבִיגַיִל, meaning, "My father is joy." . https://www.kurkgayle.com/
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