English
sarkless
From sark + -less.
Formed from sark + -less
Proto-Indo-European *ser- ‘to arrange, tack, tie, unite’
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Proto-Germanic *sarkiz ‘shirt, armour, hauberk’
Proto-West Germanic *sarki ‘sark, shirt’
Old English serċ
Middle English serk ‘a shirt used as an undergarment’
English sark
Today it means
adj Without a shirt or smock.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “sarkless”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / sarkless