stork

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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.

• (General American) enPR: stôrk, IPA^(key): /stɔɹk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /stɔːk/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
• Homophone: stalk (non-rhotic)

stork (plural storks)

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

   My sister's expecting a visit from the stork.

4. (cartomancy) The seventeenth Lenormand card.

• crane
• egret
• heron

• Korts, skort, torsk

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

• IPA^(key): /stɔːrk/, [sd̥ɒːɡ̊]

stork c (singular definite storken, plural indefinite storke)

1. stork

• “stork” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Dutch storke, from Old Dutch *stork, from Proto-West Germanic *stork, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz.

• IPA^(key): /stɔrk/

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• Hyphenation: stork
• Rhymes: -ɔrk

stork m (plural storken, diminutive storkje n)

1. (dialectal, uncommon) synonym of ooievaar (“Ciconia ciconia”)
   • 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.

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   • 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.

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• zwarte stork

stork

1. indefinite accusative singular of storkur

• storc, storck, storke

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɔrk/

stork (plural storkes)

1. stork

• English: stork
• Scots: stork

• “stork, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 July 2018.

From Old Norse storkr.

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

1. a stork

• storkenebb

From Old Norse storkr.

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

1. stork

• storkenebb

From Old Norse storkr (“stork”).

stork

1. stork

• Danish: stork

From Old Swedish storker, from Old Norse storkr.

stork c

1. (zoology) stork

   Bebisar kommer med storken

   The stork brings babies

   (literally, “Babies come with the stork”)

• stork in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• stork in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• stork in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• korts, skrot, torsk

Borrowed from English stork.

• IPA^(key): /stoɾk/

stork (nominative plural storks)

1. (male or female) stork

• stor ( = stork, obsolete)
• storasmabed