Kirkby is a name that was brought to England by the ancestors of the Kirkby family when they migrated to the region after the Norman Conquest in 1066. The Kirkby family lived at Kirkby in Furness. The name Kirkby means village with a church.
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  Answer   Silk is a Chinese word that means silk. O.E. sioloc, seoloc silk, ultimately from an Asian word (cf. Chinesesi silk, Manchurian sirghe, Mongolian si â¦ rkek) borrowed into Gk. asserikos silken, serikon silk (cf. Gk. Seres, a name for an oriental people from whom the Greeks got silk).The use of-l- instead of-r-in the Balto-Slavic form of the word (cf. O.C.S. shelku, Lith. silkai) apparently passed into English via the Baltic trade and may reflect a Chinese dialectal form, or a Slavic alteration of the Gk. word. Answer   Silk is a Chinese word that means silk. O.E. sioloc, seoloc silk, ultimately from an Asian word (cf. Chinesesi silk, Manchurian sirghe, Mongolian si â¦ rkek) borrowed into Gk. asserikos silken, serikon silk (cf. Gk. Seres, a name for an oriental people from whom the Greeks got silk).