Stock

== English == === Etymology === As an English surname, from the noun stock (“stock, tree stump”). This sense is also found respectively in Dutch and German, and Slavic borrowings of them. Compare Stocker. Also as an English surname, variant of Stoker. (Stockton): Clipping of Stockton. === Proper noun === 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”). === See also === === Anagrams === 'tocks, tocks == Alemannic German == === Etymology === From Middle High German stoc, from Old High German stoc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk. === Pronunciation === (Zürich) IPA(key): /ʃtok͡x/ === Noun === Stock m (plural Stöck, diminutive Stöckli n) stick === Further reading === “Stock”, in Wörterbuch Berndeutsch-Deutsch (in German), berndeutsch.ch, 1999–2026 == Central Franconian == === Etymology === From Middle High German stoc, from Old High German stoc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʃtɔk/ === Noun === Stock m (plural Stöck or Stäck, diminutive Stöckelche or Stäckelche) (most dialects) stick; staff (most dialects) floor; storey; level ==== Usage notes ==== The inflected forms with -ö- are Ripuarian, those with -ä- are Moselle Franconian. == German == === Alternative forms === Stok (obsolete) === Etymology === From Middle High German stoc, from Old High German stoc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʃtɔk/ === Noun === Stock m (strong, genitive Stockes or Stocks, plural Stöcke or (colloquial, regional) Stöcker, diminutive Stöckchen n) stick (solid, wooden, broken off twig or small branch mostly clear of leaves or smaller twigs) stick, staff (length of wood or other hard material that is being used as an aid in movement, e.g. in hiking or skiiing) 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 ellipsis of Bienenstock: hive, beehive ==== Usage notes ==== 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 senses of “stick”. ==== Declension ==== ==== Synonyms ==== (stick): Stab (storey): Etage; Stockwerk (deck of cards): Talon (tree trunk): Stumpen; Stumpf ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== stochern === See also === steif wie ein Stock === Further reading === “Stock”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[2] (in German) “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 == === Etymology === Inherited from Central Franconian Stock, from Middle High German stoc, from Old High German stoc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz. Cognate with German Stock and Luxembourgish Stack. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʃtok/ Rhymes: -ok Hyphenation: Stock === Noun === Stock m (plural Steck, diminutive Steckche) stick (any long, thin piece of wood) bush, shrub tree trunk Synonym: Stamm (in compounds) plant Banannestock ― banana plant ==== Derived terms ==== === Noun === Stock m (plural Steck) floor (storey of a building) === References ===