Where does “stork” come from?
stork (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Old Norse storkr, from Proto-Germanic sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European sr̥ǵos — stork.
stork (Norwegian Bokmål): a stork
Ancestry of “stork”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old Norse | storkr | stork |
| 2 | Proto-Germanic | sturkaz | stork |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | sr̥ǵos | stork |