stork

(Englisch)

  1. A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.
  2. (euphemistic) The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.
  3. The seventeenth Lenormand card.

Frequenz

C2
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/stɔɹk/
Etymologie (Englisch)

In summary

From Middle English stork, from Old English storc, from Proto-West Germanic *stork, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (“stork”). Near cognates include Dutch stork, German Storch, Swedish stork, and Icelandic storkur. Compare also Latvian stārķis (“stork”), borrowed from Germanic.

bocian

πελαργός

λελέκι

cigonha

Ciconia

Ciconia spp.

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