stork

Meaning

Noun

• A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the family Ciconiidae.
• The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.
• The seventeenth Lenormand card.

Origin

• From Middle English stork, from Old English storc, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos ("stork"). Near cognates include Dutch stork, German Storch, Swedish stork, and Icelandic storkur.