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5 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage
originFrom 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0