stork
English
/stɔɹk/, /stɔːk/
noun
Definitions
- A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the family Ciconiidae.
- (children's folklore) The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.
- (cartomancy) The seventeenth Lenormand card.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English stork inherited from Old English storc inherited from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz (stork) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (stork).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*sr̥ǵos
Gloss
stork
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bill English
- storklike English
- storksbill English
- storky English
- Milchstorch German
- Storch German
- Weißstorch German
- storchen German
- stork Dutch, Flemish
- πελαργός Ancient Greek
- *sr̥ǵos Proto-Indo-European
- *sturkaz Proto-Germanic
- skedstork Swedish
- stork Swedish
- svart stork Swedish
- vit stork Swedish
- storc Old English
- stork Middle English
- storkr Old Norse
- storkur Icelandic
- barză Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- barză-albă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- barză-neagră Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- storke Middle Dutch
- storah Old High German
- storh Old High German
- stārķis Latvian
- storch Middle High German
- stork Middle High German
- Storch Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- stork Middle Low German
- барза Ukrainian
- *stork Old Saxon
- storker Old Swedish
- stork Volapük
- Stoork Low German
- *bardza Proto-Albanian