Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sturkaz

This Proto-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-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”) and possibly Old Armenian տառեղն (taṙełn, “stork”).

Noun

*sturkaz m

1. 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

• Proto-West Germanic: *stork
  • 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
• Old Norse: storkr
  • Icelandic: storkur
  • Faroese: storkur
  • Norwegian Bokmål: stork
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: stork
  • Old Swedish: storker
    • Swedish: stork
  • Old Danish: stork
    • Danish: stork

Further reading

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