English

stockmaker

From stock + maker.

A compound of stock + maker

Proto-Germanic *stukkaz ‘tree-trunk’

Proto-West Germanic *stokk

Old English stocc ‘log, trunk’

Middle English stok ‘tree trunk’

English stock

Old English macian ‘to perform or carry out (a miracle)’

Middle English maken ‘to make or create’

Middle English maker ‘God as creator of all’

English maker

Today it means

noun A manufacturer of gunstocks.

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

Etymograph / stockmaker