Storch
English
editEtymology
editProper noun
editStorch (plural Storchs)
- A surname from German.
Statistics
edit- According to the 2010 United States Census, Storch is the 12581st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2461 individuals. Storch is most common among White (94.51%) individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Storch”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
Anagrams
editGerman
editAlternative forms
edit- Stork (dialectal, otherwise obsolete)
Etymology
editFrom Middle High German storch, storc, from Old High German storah, *storc(h), from Proto-West Germanic *stork, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz.
Cognate to dialectal Dutch stork, English stork, Swedish stork. The expected German form is also Stork, which was indeed in wide use, but has not become standardized. The shifted variant Storch is probably due to the use of epenthetic vowels in Old High German, by which the uninflected stem storah alternated with inflected storc-. Such variation was generally levelled in favour of the inflected stem, but this was an apparent exception. Compare for the regular development Old High German starah alongside starc(h), whence Middle High German starc and modern stark. Alternatively, Storch could be an Upper German relict form (with [rx] from [rkx]), but the regional distribution does not seem to confirm this.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editStorch m (strong, genitive Storches or Storchs, plural Störche, diminutive Störchlein n or Störchelchen n, feminine Störchin)
- stork (bird)
Declension
editDerived terms
editFurther reading
editLuxembourgish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom German Storch, widely displacing the native form above.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editStorch m (plural Storchen)
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- lb:Birds