Where does “stork” come from?

stork (Middle Low German) comes from Old Saxon stork, from Proto-Germanic sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European sr̥ǵos — stork.

Ancestry of “stork”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Saxonstork—
2Proto-Germanicsturkazstork
3Proto-Indo-Europeansr̥ǵosstork

Words derived from “stork”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European sr̥ǵos →Every word from Proto-Germanic sturkaz →Every word from Old Saxon stork →