 The traditional pronunciation of "Sark" in the native Norman language is "sèr" , with regular fall of final like "clerc" in French.Finally, no specialist ever identified any Proto-Semitic element in the French coastal toponymy, even on the French mediterranean side.René Lepelley suggests a Scandinavian etymology that would explain the regular and late records of the root "Serc-" in the documents, according to him, it could be Old Norse "serkr" "shirt".