# Stock
## English
### Etymology

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* (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

* 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: /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: /ʃtɔk/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

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

* 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

$^1$Now 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: /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

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

### Noun

Stock m (plural Steck)
* floor (storey of a building)
    Ich wohne im zehnte Stock.I live on the tenth floor.

### References

* ↑ Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Stock”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 158