stork
意味
- コウノトリ
例文
Parents usually tell their children that babies were delivered by a stork.
親はよく子供に「赤ちゃんはコウノトリが運んできたんだよ」と言います。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Inherited from Middle English stork, from Old English storc, from Proto-West Germanic *stork, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (“stork”). Near cognates include Dutch stork, German Storch, Swedish stork, and Icelandic storkur. Compare also Latvian stārķis (“stork”), borrowed from Germanic.