stork

Significado (Inglês)

  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.

Conceitos

Ciconiidae

Sinônimos

Traduções

Freqüência

C2
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/stɔɹk/
Etimologia (Inglês)

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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