Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sturkaz

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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-Germanic

Etymology

According to Witczak (1991), from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (“stork”), cognate to Sanskrit सृजय (sṛjaya, “wading bird”), Ancient Greek πελαργός (pelargós, “stork”), and Dacian *βärzæ (whence Romanian barză (“stork”), dialectal Bulgarian барзъ (barz).)

Alternately, from Proto-Indo-European *str̥gos, from *(s)terg-, *(s)terǵ- (“a type of bird”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter- (“stiff”). Cognate with Old East Slavic стьркъ (stĭrkŭ, “stork, crane”), Russian стерх (sterx, “Siberian crane”), Ancient Greek τόργος (tórgos, “vulture”), Albanian sterkjok (“stork”).

Noun

*sturkaz m

stork

Inflection

masculine a-stemDeclension of *sturkaz (masculine a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*sturkaz	sturkōz, sturkōs
vocative	*sturk	sturkōz, sturkōs
accusative	*sturką	*sturkanz
genitive	sturkas, sturkis	*sturkǫ̂
dative	*sturkai	*sturkamaz
instrumental	*sturkō	*sturkamiz

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: storh, storah
- Middle High German: storch
  - German: Storch
  - Hunsrik: Storrich
  - → Latvian: stārķis
  - → Lithuanian: starkus
Old Norse: storkr
- Icelandic: storkur
- Faroese: storkur
- Norwegian: stork
- Old Swedish: storker
  - Swedish: stork
- Old Danish: stork
  - Danish: stork

References

Witczak, Krzysztof Tomasz. 1991. "Indo-European *sr̥C in Germanic". Historische Sprachforschung 104:1, pp. 106–107.