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? — Wezel
Лелеки справді стоять на одній нозі? — oromashka
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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
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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? — oromashka
ruАисты правда стоят на одной ноге? — Wezel
The stork was flying above the city.
Лелека летів над містом. — deniko
ruАист летел над городом. — whatnot
Our stork flew away to warmer countries.
Наш лелека відлетів до теплих країв. — deniko
Parents used to tell their children that babies were delivered by a stork.
Раніше батьки говорили своїм дітям, що їх приніс лелека. — deniko
Babies are delivered by storks.
Дітей приносить лелека. — deniko
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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