# stork
## English

Wikispecies

### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

stork (plural storks)
* A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes.
* (folklore or euphemistic) The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.
    My sister's expecting a visit from the stork.
* (cartomancy) The seventeenth Lenormand card.

#### Derived terms

* adjutant stork
* black-necked stork
* black stork
* giant stork
* hair-crested stork
* maguari stork
* marabou stork
* milky stork
* Oriental stork
* saddle-billed stork
* stork-billed
* stork bite
* storky
* white stork
* wood stork

#### Translations
### See also

* crane
* egret
* heron

### Anagrams

* Korts, skort, torsk

## Danish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stɔːrk/, [sd̥ɒːɡ̊]

### Noun

stork c (singular definite storken, plural indefinite storke)
* stork

#### Declension
### References

* “stork” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stɔrk/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: stork
* Rhymes: -ɔrk

### Noun

stork m (plural storken, diminutive storkje n)
* (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.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 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.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Derived terms

* zwarte stork

## Icelandic
### Noun

stork
* indefinite accusative singular of storkur

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* storc, storck, storke

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈstɔrk/

### Noun

stork (plural storkes)
* stork

#### Descendants

* English: stork
* Scots: stork

#### References

* “stork, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-06.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse storkr.

### Noun

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

#### Derived terms

* storkenebb

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse storkr.

### Noun

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

#### Derived terms

* storkenebb

## Old Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse storkr (“stork”).

### Noun

stork
* stork

#### Descendants

* Danish: stork

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish storker, from Old Norse storkr.

### Noun

stork c
* (zoology) stork

#### Inflection
### Anagrams

* korts, skrot, torsk

## Volapük
### Etymology

Borrowed from English stork.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stoɾk/

### Noun

stork (nominative plural storks)
* (male or female) stork

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only

#### Derived terms

* histork
* historkül
* jistork
* jistorkül
* storkahoned
* storkanäst
* storkül
* storkalög
* storkalögik

#### Related terms

* stor ( = stork, obsolete)
* storasmabed