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

Example Sentences

Byron-Gordon G., 397 Caddo, the, 355 Caddoan linguistic stock, the, 355, 381 Cagayans, the, 247 California, Indians of, 368 sqq.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

Although the latter are included in the same linguistic group with the Arikara, Pawnee, and others as mentioned above, they are regarded by some as constituting a distinct linguistic stock.

From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by Bushnell, David Ives

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

Sifans, the, 211 Sihanakas, the, 242 Sikemeier, W., 549 Sikhs, the, 550 Siksika, the, 354, 370, 372 sqq., and map, pp. 334-5 Singpho, the, 186 Siouan linguistic stock, the, 342, 347, 355, 371 sqq.,

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