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Stork



Table of contents
1 Etymology
2 Pronunciation
3 Noun
4 External link

Etymology

Middle English stork, from Old English storc, from common Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *str̥gos, probably an extension of *ster- "stiff" (from its movements). Near cognates include German Storch and Icelandic storkur.

Pronunciation

  • AHD: stôrk

{| border=1 cellpadding=5 ! !! General American !! Received Pronunciation |- | IPA || /stɔrk/ || /stɔːk/ |- | SAMPA || /stOrk/ || /stO:k/ |}

Homophones

  • stalk (non-rhotic accents)

Noun

stork (plural: storks)
  1. a type of bird with long legs and a long beak of the family Ciconiidae
  2. the stork: a mythical stork responsible for bringing newborn babies to their parents

Translations

  • Albanian: lejleku
  • Basque: amiamoko
  • Belarusian: бусел (busjel)
  • Breton: c’hwibon
  • Bulgarian: щъркел (shtŭrkel)
  • Catalan: cigonya
  • Croatian: roda
  • Czech: čáp
  • Danish: stork
  • Dutch: ooievaar m
  • Esperanto: cikonio
  • Estonian: toonekurg
  • Faroese: storkur
  • Finnish: haikara
  • French: cigogne f
  • Frisian: earrebarre
  • Friulian: cicogne
  • Gallegan: cegoña
  • German: Storch m
  • Greek: πελαργός
  • Hungarian: gólya
  • Icelandic: storkur
  • Irish: storc
  • Italian: cicogna
  • Ladin: zicogna
  • Latin: ciconia
  • Latvian: stārķis
  • Lithuanian: gandras
  • Lower Sorbian: bośon
  • Macedonian: штрк (štrk)
  • Maltese: ċikonja
  • Norwegian: stork
  • Occitan: cigonha
  • Polish: bocian
  • Portuguese: cegonha
  • Romanian: barza-albă
  • Romansh: cicogna
  • Romany: kokosturko m
  • Russian: аист (aist)
  • Sami: stohpoháigir
  • Sardinian: cicògna, cicónnia, tziconna
  • Scottish: corra-ghrian
  • Serbian: рода (roda)
  • Slovak: bocian
  • Slovenian: štorklja
  • Spanish: cigüeña
  • Swedish: stork
  • Turkish: leylek
  • Ukrainian: лелека (lеlеka), чорногуз (čornohuz), бусел (busеl)
  • Upper Sorbian: baćon
  • Welsh: ciconia

External link




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