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