stork
A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its…A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.
» Do storks really stand on one leg?
Аисты правда стоят на одной ноге?
Лелеки справді стоять на одній нозі?
Meaning
3 sensesA large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.
Storch
а́истáist
леле́каleléka, чорногу́зčornohúz, бу́селbúsel
(euphemistic)The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.
My sister's expecting a visit from the stork.
Storch
а́истáist
The seventeenth Lenormand card.
- large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage
Examples
28 sentencesDo storks really stand on one leg?
Лелеки справді стоять на одній нозі?
ruАисты правда стоят на одной ноге?
The stork was flying above the city.
Лелека летів над містом.
ruАист летел над городом.
Our stork flew away to warmer countries.
Наш лелека відлетів до теплих країв.
Parents used to tell their children that babies were delivered by a stork.
Раніше батьки говорили своїм дітям, що їх приніс лелека.
Babies are delivered by storks.
Дітей приносить лелека.
Translations
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Origin
Inherited from Middle English stork, from Old English storc, from Proto-West Germanic *stoInherited 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.
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