Talk:steelyard

Etymology: corruption of statera?

There are occasional suggestions that the word steelyard is a corruption of statera (e.g., as stilliard via stalier + -d or -ard, as in halyard, lanyard), but this looks implausible: it seems pretty clearly associated with the place, and simply replaced a similar but distinct Latinate word.

—Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 04:20, 6 June 2016 (UTC)