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5 letters · 5 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the ermine in its brown summer coat with black-tipped tail
originFrom Middle English stote (“the ermine, especially in its brown summer coat”), of uncertain origin. The word bears some resemblance to Old Norse stutr (“bull”), Swedish stut (“bull, steer”) and Danish stud (“steer”) (see also English stot), but the semantic link is difficult unless a common origin is from “(brown?) male mammal”. First attested in the mid 1400s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0