Etymology

stockist

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Today it means: A retailer or distributor who has stocks of a certain type of item for sale. Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-West Germanic*stokk
  2. Old Englishstocc
  3. Middle Englishstok
  4. Englishstock
  5. English todaystockist

From stock + -ist.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.