Storch

Bedeutung (Englisch)

stork (bird)

Synonyme

Klapperstorch

Adebar

Weißstorch

Ciconiidae

Ciconia ciconia

Weißer Storch

Meister Adebar

Weissstorch

Übersetzungen

stork

cigogne

cicogna

cegonha

ooievaar

cigüeña

leylek

ciconia

πελαργός

cigonya

لقلق

cigonha

Ciconia

λελέκι

Dialekte

Basel-Landschaft

haini

Basel-Landschaft

stoorg

Basel-Landschaft

stoorgehaini

Daten bereitgestellt von: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ʃtɔrç/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelhochdeutsch: storch

Geerbt von Althochdeutsch: storah

Verwandt mit Niederländisch: stork

Verwandt mit Englisch: stork

Verwandt mit Schwedisch: stork

In summary

From Middle High German storch, storc, from Old High German storah, *storc(h), from Proto-West Germanic *stork, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz.
Cognate to dialectal Dutch stork, English stork, Swedish stork. The expected German form is also Stork, which was indeed in wide use, but has not become standardized. The shifted variant Storch is probably due to the use of epenthetic vowels in Old High German, by which the uninflected stem storah alternated with inflected storc-. Such variation was generally levelled in favour of the inflected stem, but this was an apparent exception. Compare for the regular development Old High German starah alongside starc(h), whence Middle High German starc and modern stark. Alternatively, Storch could be an Upper German relict form (with [rx] from [rkx]), but the regional distribution does not seem to confirm this.