stork

• n. [鳥]コウノトリ
• n.(コウノトリ)人名;(英、S.、フィン、スウェーデン)コウノトリ;(独)コウノトリ

古英語のstorc, storkから、原ゲルマン語*sturkaz, storkから、PIE*ster, fixed, stiffから、語源はstark, sterileと同じ。おそらく鳥の立ち姿か、細長い脚から名付けられた。

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.
=> starch, stare, stark, starve, stereo

stork (n.)

Old English storc "stork," from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz (cognates: Old Norse storkr, Swedish and Danish stork, Middle Dutch storc, Old High German storah, German Storch "stork"), from PIE *ster- "stiff" (cognates: Old English stear "stiff, strong;" see stark). Perhaps so called with reference to the bird's stiff or rigid posture. But some connect the word to Greek torgos "vulture."

Old Church Slavonic struku, Russian sterkhu, Lithuanian starkus, Hungarian eszterag, Albanian sterkjok "stork" are said to be Germanic loan-words. The children's fable that babies are brought by storks (told by adults who aren't ready to go into the details) is in English by 1854, from German and Dutch nursery stories, no doubt from the notion that storks nesting on one's roof meant good luck, often in the form of family happiness.

1. A stork flew slowly past.

コウノトリがゆっくり飛んでいった。

2.Mary，don 't you want me to be a laughing stork ？

メアリー、私をバカにしてほしいですか？

3.He was flown out in a tiny Stork spotter plane to Rome.

彼は怪鳥型小型偵察機に乗ってローマに到着した。

4.One night his ship，the Stork ; pursued and rammed a U-boat in the darkness.

ある夜、彼の乗り艦「こうのとり」は夜の中で潜水艦を追いかけて衝突した。

5.We airfreight the shipment because our agent has run out of stork .

この貨物を空輸したのは、代理店が在庫を使い切ったからだ。