word-stock

However, the basic word-stock of any language has been passed on through the generations, and - like so many human institutions and occupations - cannot be claimed as the sole invention of any individual or group.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

As users of the English language, wanting to write a page on, say, the climate sense of 'depression', what word-stock is available for us to use that relate specifically to that topic?

On relevance in advertising DC 2007

Anti-purist on the other hand will ridiculize any neologism generated from the native word-stock.

languagehat.com: HIGH ICELANDIC. 2005

The circumstances of a new colony naturally cause additions to the word-stock of the mother country.

Town Life in Australia Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny 1886

While the preoccupation with adjustments in our language's word-stock is understandable, it is a recipe for over-emphatic commentary and woozy prognostication.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

While the preoccupation with adjustments in our language's word-stock is understandable, it is a recipe for over-emphatic commentary and woozy prognostication.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

While the preoccupation with adjustments in our language's word-stock is understandable, it is a recipe for over-emphatic commentary and woozy prognostication.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

Thus one of the more notable borrowing neologists of the Renaissance, Sir Thomas Elyot, author of The Governour, wrote in 1531: "Divers men, rather scornyng my benefite [` beneficence, 'i. e, adding to the English word-stock] than receyving it thankfully, doo shew them selves offended (as they say) with my straunge termes."

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3 1984

For the language of Boudicca and Arthur -- the language of the Ancient Britons -- has contributed surprisingly little to the word-stock of English.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2 1983

In the Renaissance, writers of English freely borrowed foreign words -- mostly from Latin, French, and Greek -- when they sensed lacunae in our word-stock.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2 1983