stork

stork
\ \ [OE] The stork may get its name from its rather stiff-legged gait. The word comes from a prehistoric Germanic *sturkaz, which also produced German storch and Dutch, Swedish, and Danish stork. This may have been formed from the base *sturk-, *stark-, *sterk- ‘rigid’, which also produced English starch and stark.
\ \ Cf.STARCH, STARE, STARK, STARVE, STEREO

Word origins - 2ed. . 2005.

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