Yola edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English staf, from Old English stæf, from Proto-West Germanic *stab.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

stheeves

  1. staves

References edit

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 69