Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Irk

Irk (ẽrk) , transitive verb

[Old English irken to tire, become tired; compare Swedish yrka to urge, enforce, press, or German ekel disgust, Middle High German erklich disgusting; perh. akin to Latin urgere to urge, English urge.]

To weary; to give pain; to annoy.
To see this sight, it irks my very soul. — Shakespeare
It irketh him to be here. — M. Arnold