See also: stock, Stöck, -stock, and stock-

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Stock (countable and uncountable, plural Stocks)

  1. A village and civil parish in Chelmsford district, Essex, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref TQ6998).
  2. A surname.
  3. Diminutive of Stockton (personal name)

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Central Franconian edit

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From Middle High German stoc, from Old High German stoc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk.

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Stock m (plural Stöck or Stäck, diminutive Stöckelche or Stäckelche)

  1. (most dialects) stick; staff
  2. (most dialects) floor; storey; level

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  • The inflected forms with -ö- are Ripuarian, those with -ä- are Moselle Franconian.

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Etymology edit

From Middle High German stoc, from Old High German stoc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk.

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  • IPA(key): /ʃtɔk/
  • (file)

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Stock m (strong, genitive Stockes or Stocks, plural Stöcke or Stöcker, diminutive Stöckchen n)

  1. stick, staff, broken-off twig
    Ich weiß nicht, wo ich den Stock gelassen habe; haben Sie ihn nicht gesehen?
    I don't know where I've left the staff; haven't you seen it?
  2. floor, storey, level
    im dritten Stockon the third floor (UK counting)/fourth floor (US counting)
  3. stock, supply (but only in some contexts and much less common than in English)
  4. (card games) pile of undealt cards, deck
  5. the entirety of roots of a plant; stock
  6. (short for Bienenstock) hive; beehive

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  • The standard plural is Stöcke.
  • The alternative plural Stöcker is used in northern and eastern Germany (chiefly in colloquial usage and usually only for the sense “stick, staff”).

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Etymology edit

Inherited from Central Franconian Stock, from Middle High German stoc, from Old High German stoc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz.[1]

Cognate with German Stock and Luxembourgish Stack.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ʃtok/
  • Rhymes: -ok
  • Hyphenation: Stock

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Stock m (nominative plural Steck, diminutive Steckche)

  1. stick (any long, thin piece of wood)
  2. bush, shrub
  3. tree trunk
    Synonym: Stamm
  4. (in compounds) plant
    Banannestockbanana plant

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Stock m (nominative plural Steck)

  1. floor (storey of a building)
    Ich wohne im zehnte Stock.
    I live on the tenth floor.

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References edit

  1. ^ Piter Kehoma Boll (2021), “Stock”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português [Riograndenser Hunsrickisch–Portuguese Dictionary] (in Portuguese), 3 edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 158