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Added 9 October 2026

lark

/lɑːk/ noun

In Latin: alauda Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about lark at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

North American songbirds having a yellow breast.
A songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage.
Any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing.

verb

Play boisterously.
The children frolicked in the garden

Origin

From Middle English larke, laverke, from Old English lāwerce, lǣwerce, lāuricæ, from Proto-West Germanic *laiwaʀikā, from Proto-Germanic *laiwazikǭ (compare dialectal West Frisian larts, Dutch leeuwerik, German Lerche), from *laiwaz (borrowed into Finnish leivo, Estonian lõo), of unknown ultimate origin with no definitive cognates outside of Germanic.

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