Talk:stag
Latest comment: 10 months ago by Einstein2 in topic Possible missing obsolete slang sense: a shilling
Etymology
[edit]What is the source for stag: A colt, or filly? Cgoodwin 05:02, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
- I read few minutes ago that OE stagga is unattested. Shall we keep nonexistent notions? Moreover, in the second source Pokorny considers stagga a common Germanic noun, not an Old English one. This makes the quotation of sources for the second version even more exigent Bogorm 11:48, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
-- the Norse etymologies are not even confirmed by the links given, which says they are just cognates! Nakamura Mondo 12:43, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
- Most dictionaries have the unattested OE stagga and Proto-Germanic as we show it. DCDuring TALK 17:21, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
Listed in John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873). Equinox ◑ 21:47, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
- GDoS has two uses of this sense. Einstein2 (talk) 21:09, 29 October 2023 (UTC)