The story
- Serbo-Croatian · derived fromštrk“gadfly”
- English todaySterk
* 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”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.