wordstock

English

Etymology

word +‎ stock

Noun

wordstock (plural wordstocks)

1. (linguistics) The set of words in a language.
   • 1978, Iván Boldizsár, The New Hungarian Quarterly (volume 19, issues 69-70)

     Among the English words that were added to the Hungarian wordstock at the beginning of the twentieth century, we find many associated with sports, entertainment, fashion, high life […]

   • 2007, Michelle Howard, Learn Unilingua - The Language for International Communication

     Also, the wordstock of Unilingua is considered a priori, that is, there is no deliberate association with words or roots in existing natural languages.

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