Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/stork

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sturkaz.

Noun

*stork m

1. stork

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*stork
Genitive	*storkas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*stork	*storkō, *storkōs
Accusative	*stork	*storkā
Genitive	*storkas	*storkō
Dative	*storkē	*storkum
Instrumental	*storku	*storkum

Descendants

• Old English: storc
  • Middle English: stork
    • Scots: stork
    • English: stork
• Old Frisian: *stork
  • Saterland Frisian: Stoark
• Old Saxon: *stork
  • Middle Low German: stork
    • German Low German: Störk, Stoork, Stürk
• Old Dutch: *stork
  • Middle Dutch: storke, storc, sturc
    • Dutch: stork
• Old High German: storah, storh, *stork (irregular -h- possibly generalized from svarabhakti form)
  • Middle High German: storch, storc
    • German: Storch, (obsolete) Stork
      • → Hunsrik: Storrich
      • → Luxembourgish: Storch
    • Luxembourgish: (dated) Stuerk
    • → Latvian: stārķis
    • → Lithuanian: starkus