stork
English

A stork.
Etymology
From Middle English stork, from Old English storc, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (“stork”). Near cognates include Dutch stork, German Storch, Swedish stork, and Icelandic storkur.
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: stôrk, IPA(key): /stɔɹk/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /stɔːk/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
- Homophone: stalk (non-rhotic accents)
Noun
stork (plural storks)
- 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.
Derived terms
Translations
large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae
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Danish
Etymology
From Old Danish stork, from Old Norse storkr (“stork”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stɔːrk/, [sd̥ɒːɡ̊]
Declension
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch storke.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stɔrk/
- Rhymes: -ɔrk
Audio (file)
Noun
stork m (plural storken, diminutive storkje n)
- (dialectal, uncommon) stork
- 1700, Mosaïze historie der Hebreeuwse kerke, part 2, publ. by Willem & David Goeree, page 461, quoting a saying.
- Het regtschaapen Haagze Waapen, is een Stork; / Dats een Mikker voor de Kikker en de Work.
- 1864, J. A. Klokman, "Een Achterhoeksche boerenzoon, die Artis bezoekt", in Het leeskabinet. Mengelwerk tot gezellig onderhoud voor beschaafde kringen, volume 4, 18.
- En betjen vèrder, regs af daor, trof ik 'n heele boel van die lankbeenige veugele an; 'et wazzen allerlei vremde soorten van kranen, storken (ooijevaars) en zuk goed; van die storken hadden ze spierwitte en pikzwarte.
- 1700, Mosaïze historie der Hebreeuwse kerke, part 2, publ. by Willem & David Goeree, page 461, quoting a saying.
Icelandic
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English storc, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstɔrk/
References
- “stork (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-06.
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish storker, from Old Norse storkr.
Volapük
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stoɾk/
Declension
declension of stork
singular | plural | |
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nominative | stork | storks |
genitive | storka | storkas |
dative | storke | storkes |
accusative | storki | storkis |
vocative 1 | o stork! | o storks! |
predicative 2 | storku | storkus |
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in some later, non-classical Volapük only
Derived terms
- histork
- historkül
- jistork
- jistorkül
- storkahoned
- storkanäst
- storkül
- storkalög
- storkalögik
Related terms
- stor ( = stork, obsolete)
- storasmabed
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