English Explanatory Dictionary

Sterk

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

Sterk Sterks

Etymology

* As a German, Dutch and Jewish surname, from the adjective stark (“brave, strong”). * As a Slovene surname Šterk, from the verb štrkati (“to scatter, shoot, splash”), probably from the same source as Czech strkat, or perhaps borrowed from Serbo-Croatian štrk (“gadfly”).

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