Sark

See also: sark, särk, and şark

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Sark

Unknown, but see Wikipedia. Richard Coates has suggested derivation from Proto-Semitic, although this is considered unlikely.

Sark

One of the Channel Islands; notable inter alia for its local government containing one of the last vestiges of feudalism in Europe.
The River Sark, a minor river in Dumfries and Galloway council area and Cumbria, forming part of the border between Scotland and England, which flows into the tidal Esk at Gretna.
- 1953 August, Basil M. Bazley, “Carlisle in 1905”, in Railway Magazine, page 507:
  I have often been amused by travellers pointing out, first the Eden, just north of the station, and then the Esk, which young Lochinvar swam, as the Border; the real boundary is, of course, the little river Sark, just south of the Caledonian station at Gretna; […] .

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