Noun: stork
| Singular | stork |
| Plural | storks |
Sample Sentences
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My sister's expecting a visit from the stork.
Nouns inflected like stork
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited 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. See: Middle English Nouns '
stork', Middle English Nouns '
stork', Old English Nouns '
storc', Dutch Nouns '
stork', German Nouns '
Storch', Swedish Nouns '
stork', Icelandic Nouns '
storkur'.
Verbs referencing "stork"
Romanian Nouns
barză, German Nouns
Storch, Latvian Nouns
stārķis.