linguistic stock

American  

noun

1. a parent language and all its derived dialects and languages.

2. the people speaking any of these dialects or languages.

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Etymology

Origin of linguistic stock

First recorded in 1920–25

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linguistic stock

Shoshoni, the, 355, 367, 371 sq., and map, pp, 334-5 Shoshonian linguistic stock, the, 347, 369 Shrubsall, F. C., 121, 126, 450 n.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

It becomes, therefore, of importance to discover from what linguistic stock this term and its associated words are derived.

From Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

Each linguistic stock is found to have a philosophy of its own, and each stock as many branches of philosophy as it has languages and dialects.

From Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56 by Powell, John Wesley

The Tupi Indians of Brazil term the moon jacy, "our mother," and the same name occurs in the Omagua and other members of this linguistic stock.

From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Chamberlain, Alexander F.

Finally, No. X. aims to define for the first time the linguistic stock to which belong the dialects of the Betoyas, Tucanos, Zeonas and other tribes on the rivers Napo, Meta, Apure and their confluents.

From A Record of Study in Aboriginal American Languages by Brinton, Daniel Garrison