Storch

English Etymology en de Storch stork. Proper noun s en German. 24 FROM THIS AREA IN MARYLAND DEAD; Union City Woman Was Flying to Funeral -- North Bergen Couple on First Air Trip https://www.nytimes.com/1947/06/01/archives/24-from-this-area-in-maryland-dead-union-city-woman-was-flying-to.html 1947-06-01 Samuel Storch, 55, lived in Miami and commuted by air to New York to operate two metalcraft factories with other members of his family. https://archive.ph/GpSg3 2025-12-25 Statistics 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 Anagrams en chorst schort German Alternative forms de Stork dialectal, otherwise obsolete Etymology From de gmh storch, gmh storc, from de goh storah, goh *storc(h), from de gmw-pro *stork, from de gem-pro *sturkaz. Cognate to dialectal nl stork, en stork, sv stork. The expected German form is also de Stork, which was indeed in wide use, but has not become standardized. The shifted variant de Storch is probably due to the use of epenthetic vowels in Old High German, by which the uninflected stem goh storah alternated with inflected goh storc-. Such variation was generally levelled in favour of the inflected stem, but this was an apparent exception. Compare for the regular development goh starah alongside goh starc starc(h), whence gmh starc and modern de stark. Alternatively, de Storch could be an Upper German relict form (with [rx] from [rkx]), but the regional distribution does not seem to confirm this. Pronunciation de /ʃtɔrç/ [ʃtɔʁç] [ʃtɔɐ̯ç] [ʃtɔːç] de De-Storch.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Noun m,(e)s,^e ^lein,^elchen ^in stork bird de Adebar<g:m><qq:dialectal or poetic> Declension m,(e)s,^e Derived terms de Pfeilstorch Schwarzstorch Weißstorch Further reading de Female Storks Luxembourgish Alternative forms lb Stuerk dated Etymology From lb de Storch, widely displacing the native form above. Pronunciation lb [ʃtoχɕ] Noun m stork lb Storks