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English word origin

Etymology of 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 Stok

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Unnumbered source etymology

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A village and civil parish in Chelmsford district, Essex, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref TQ6998). · A surname. · Diminutive of Stockton (“personal name”).

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

* 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.

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