Etymology

overstock

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Today it means: To stock to an excessive degree. Full definition →

English stock ← Middle English stok ← Old English stocc
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Germanic*uber
  4. Old Englishofer-
  5. Middle Englishover-
  6. Englishover-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*(s)teyg-
  8. Proto-Germanic*stikaną
  9. Proto-Germanic*stukkaz
  10. Proto-West Germanic*stokk
  11. Old Englishstocc
  12. Middle Englishstok
  13. Englishstock
  14. English todayoverstock

From over- + stock.

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