stork

See also: Stork and Störk

English

Wikispecies

A stork.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • (General American) enPR: stôrk, IPA(key): /stɔɹk/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /stɔːk/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
  • Homophone: stalk (non-rhotic accents)

Noun

stork (plural storks)

  1. A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the family Ciconiidae.
  2. (children's folklore) The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.
  3. (cartomancy) The seventeenth Lenormand card.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish stork, from Old Norse storkr (“stork”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /stɔːrk/, [sd̥ɒːɡ̊]

Noun

stork c (singular definite storken, plural indefinite storke)

  1. stork

Declension
Declension of stork
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative stork storken storke storkene
genitive storks storkens storkes storkenes

References

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch storke.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /stɔrk/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrk
  • Audio(file)

Noun

stork m (plural storken, diminutive storkje n)

  1. (dialectal, uncommon) stork
    • 1700, Mosaïze historie der Hebreeuwse kerke, part 2, publ. by Willem & David Goeree, page 461, quoting a saying.
      Het regtschaapen Haagze Waapen, is een Stork; / Dats een Mikker voor de Kikker en de Work.
    • 1864, J. A. Klokman, "Een Achterhoeksche boerenzoon, die Artis bezoekt", in Het leeskabinet. Mengelwerk tot gezellig onderhoud voor beschaafde kringen, volume 4, 18.
      En betjen vèrder, regs af daor, trof ik 'n heele boel van die lankbeenige veugele an; 'et wazzen allerlei vremde soorten van kranen, storken (ooijevaars) en zuk goed; van die storken hadden ze spierwitte en pikzwarte.

Synonyms

Icelandic

Noun

stork

  1. indefinite accusative singular of storkur

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English storc, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈstɔrk/

Noun

stork (plural storkes)

  1. stork

Descendants

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse storkr

Noun

stork m (definite singular storken, indefinite plural storker, definite plural storkene)

  1. stork

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse storkr

Noun

stork m (definite singular storken, indefinite plural storkar, definite plural storkane)

  1. stork

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish storker, from Old Norse storkr.

Noun

stork c

  1. (zoology) stork

Inflection
Declension of stork 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative stork storken storkar storkarna
Genitive storks storkens storkars storkarnas

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English stork.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /stoɾk/

Noun

stork (plural storks)

  1. (male or female) stork

Declension
declension of stork
singular plural
nominative stork storks
genitive storka storkas
dative storke storkes
accusative storki storkis
vocative 1 o stork! o storks!
predicative 2 storku storkus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in some later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms
  • histork
  • historkül
  • jistork
  • jistorkül
  • storkahoned
  • storkanäst
  • storkül
  • storkalög
  • storkalögik
  • stor ( = stork, obsolete)
  • storasmabed
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