wordstock

See also: word-stock

English

Alternative forms

• word-stock

Etymology

From word +‎ stock, probably influenced by German Wortschatz, Danish ordforråd, et al.

Noun

wordstock (plural wordstocks)

1. (puristic) The vocabulary (set of words) of a language.

   Synonyms: wordhoard, lexicon

   • 1978, Iván Boldizsár, The New Hungarian Quarterly, volume 19, numbers 69-70:

     Among the English words that were added to the Hungarian wordstock at the beginning of the twentieth century, we find many associated with sports, entertainment, fashion, high life […]

   • 2007, Michelle Howard, Learn Unilingua - The Language for International Communication:

     Also, the wordstock of Unilingua is considered a priori, that is, there is no deliberate association with words or roots in existing natural languages.

Translations

vocabulary — see vocabulary