stork

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(Anglais)

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

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/stɔɹk/

Hérité de moyen anglais

Hérité de ancien anglais

Appartenant à néerlandais

Appartenant à allemand

Appartenant à suédois

Appartenant à islandais

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.