English

farmstock

From farm + stock.

A compound of farm + stock

Medieval Latin ferma

Anglo-Norman ferme ‘rent, lease, farm’

Middle English ferme ‘rent, revenue’

English farm

Proto-Germanic *stukkaz ‘tree-trunk’

Proto-West Germanic *stokk

Old English stocc ‘log, trunk’

Middle English stok ‘tree trunk’

English stock

Today it means

noun livestock on a farm

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / farmstock