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

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:
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 Stock, Essex on Wikipedia
 Stock (surname) on Wikipedia

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)

  1. A village and civil parish in Chelmsford district, Essex, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref TQ6998).
  2. A surname.
    • 2025 July 3, Ben Whedon, “Reshaping the right: A generational divide heralds a transformation of the GOP”, in Just the News‎:
      Speaking on the John Solomon Reports podcast this week, conservative activist and RiftTV contributor Sarah Stock attributed some of the divide to a generational split in how conservatives consume information.
  3. Diminutive of Stockton (“personal name”).

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Central Franconian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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]
More information singular, plural ...

1Now rare, see notes.

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