Stock

• 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.

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^[1], archived from the original on 20 July 2025:

     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”).

• 'tocks, tocks

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

• (Zürich) IPA^(key): /ʃtok͡x/

Stock m (plural Stöck, diminutive Stöckli n)

1. stick

• “Stock”, in Wörterbuch Berndeutsch-Deutsch (in German), berndeutsch.ch, 1999–2026

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

• IPA^(key): /ʃtɔk/

Stock m (plural Stöck or Stäck, diminutive Stöckelche or Stäckelche)

1. (most dialects) stick; staff
2. (most dialects) floor; storey; level

• The inflected forms with -ö- are Ripuarian, those with -ä- are Moselle Franconian.

• Stok (obsolete)

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

• IPA^(key): /ʃtɔk/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Stock m (strong, genitive Stockes or Stocks, plural Stöcke or (colloquial, regional) Stöcker, diminutive Stöckchen n)

1. stick (solid, wooden, broken off twig or small branch mostly clear of leaves or smaller twigs)

   Schau mal, ich habe einen Stock gefunden, der wie ein Schwert aussieht.

   Check it out, I found a stick that looks like a sword.

2. stick, staff (length of wood or other hard material that is being used as an aid in movement, e.g. in hiking or skiiing)

   Ich weiß nicht, wo ich den Stock gelassen habe; haben Sie ihn nicht gesehen?

   I don't know where I've left the staff; have you seen it perhaps?

3. floor, storey, level

   im dritten Stock ― on the third floor (UK counting)/fourth floor (US counting)

4. stock, supply (but only in some contexts and much less common than in English)
5. (card games) pile of undealt cards, deck
6. the entirety of roots of a plant; stock
7. ellipsis of Bienenstock: hive, beehive

• 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”.

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

• stochern

• steif wie ein Stock

• “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

Inherited from Central Franconian Stock, from Middle High German stoc, from Old High German stoc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz.^[1]

Cognate with German Stock and Luxembourgish Stack.

• IPA^(key): /ʃtok/
• Rhymes: -ok
• Hyphenation: Stock

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

Stock m (plural Steck)

1. floor (storey of a building)

   Ich wohne im zehnte Stock.

   I live on the tenth floor.