Talk:steelyard

Etymology: corruption of statera?
There are occasional suggestions that the word is a corruption of  (e.g., as  via  + -d or, as in , ), 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)