Stock

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

English

Etymology

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• (Stockton): Clipping of Stockton.

Proper noun

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”)

See also

• Goodley Stock

 

Anagrams

• 'tocks, tocks

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)

1. (most dialects) stick; staff
2. (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/

• Audio:

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Noun

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 Stock ― on 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

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 sense “stick, staff”).

Declension

Declension of Stock [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Stock	die	Stöcke, Stöcker
genitive	eines	des	Stockes, Stocks	der	Stöcke, Stöcker
dative	einem	dem	Stock, Stocke1	den	Stöcken, Stöckern
accusative	einen	den	Stock	die	Stöcke, Stöcker

¹Now rare, see notes.

Synonyms

• (stick): Stab
• (storey): Etage; Stockwerk
• (deck of cards): Talon
• (tree trunk): Stumpen; Stumpf

Derived terms

• Bienenstock
• Gehstock
• Holzstock
• Rebstock
• Rohrstock
• Spazierstock
• Stöckchen
• Stockente
• stockgerade
• Stockkampf
• Stockwerk
• Türstock
• Viehstock
• Viehtreiberstock
• Weinstock
• Zeigestock

 

See also

• steif wie ein Stock

Further reading

• “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

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)

1. stick (any long, thin piece of wood)
2. bush, shrub
3. tree trunk

   Synonym: Stamm

4. (in compounds) plant

   Banannestock ― banana plant

Derived terms

nouns

• Banannestock
• Batattestock
• Bohnestock
• Boverstock
• Fummstock
• Himbeerestock
• Kaffistock
• Krautstock
• Linsestock
• Miljestock
• Mischirickestock
• Palmestock
• Perlsteckche
• Rockeplanz
• Rosestock
• Tomattestock
• Trauvestock

 

Noun

Stock m (plural Steck)

1. floor (storey of a building)

   Ich wohne im zehnte Stock.

   I live on the tenth floor.