stork

Bedeutung (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.

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Übersetzungen

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.

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