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A poor man named John Cordeaux was brazen enough to suggest [May 27, 1893] that stoat is from the Anglo-Saxon steort , a tail.
Ever since the Norman invasion, people have preferred to use the longer Latinate terms over the blunt Anglo-Saxon words: the general feeling, with some small basis, is that such diction shows a touch of class.
Since Anglo-Saxon times, the word has gone through a process of generalization, whereby it has taken on a wider range of meaning.
When, in about the year 596, King Æthelbert promulgated a written Anglo-Saxon code of law, a little cloud of Latin was rising from the sea.
An ell , Anglo-Saxon eln , was a rough reckoning, being the distance from the crook of the arm to the end of the longest finger, the elbow being where the bow or bend occurred.