Stock
English edit
Etymology edit
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Proper noun edit
Stock (countable and uncountable, plural Stocks)
- A village and civil parish in Chelmsford district, Essex, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref TQ6998).
- A surname.
- Diminutive of Stockton (“personal name”)
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Central Franconian edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German stoc, from Old High German stoc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk.
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Noun edit
Stock m (plural Stöck or Stäck, diminutive Stöckelche or Stäckelche)
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- The inflected forms with -ö- are Ripuarian, those with -ä- are Moselle Franconian.
German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German stoc, from Old High German stoc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk.
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Noun edit
Stock m (strong, genitive Stockes or Stocks, plural Stöcke or Stöcker, diminutive Stöckchen n)
- 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?
- floor, storey, level
- im dritten Stock ― on the third floor (UK counting)/fourth floor (US counting)
- stock, supply (but only in some contexts and much less common than in English)
- (card games) pile of undealt cards, deck
- the entirety of roots of a plant; stock
- (short for Bienenstock) hive; beehive
Usage notes edit
- 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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Further reading edit
- “Stock” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Stock” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Stock” in Duden online
- Stock on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Stock”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Hunsrik edit
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.
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Noun edit
Stock m (nominative plural Steck, diminutive Steckche)
- stick (any long, thin piece of wood)
- bush, shrub
- tree trunk
- Synonym: Stamm
- (in compounds) plant
- Banannestock ― banana plant
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Stock m (nominative plural Steck)
- floor (storey of a building)
- Ich wohne im zehnte Stock.
- I live on the tenth floor.
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References edit
- ^ Piter Kehoma Boll (2021), “Stock”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português [Riograndenser Hunsrickisch–Portuguese Dictionary] (in Portuguese), 3 edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 158