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Vinony

stork

noun

  1. heraldic animal
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /stɔɹk/ / /stɔːk/ / /stoːk/

name

Etymology: Two main origins: * English surname from stork, a nickname for a thin man with long legs. * Borrowed from German Stork, probably a nickname or a habitational surname from a place in Hesse.

  1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: 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.

  1. A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.
  2. The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.

    “My sister's expecting a visit from the stork.”

  3. The seventeenth Lenormand card.