Other forms: stags
A stag is a fully grown male deer. A red stag, the stag roared, a twelve-point stag.
The antlers are grown and shed every year, and they are bone rather than horn — which is why they can be so large and so quickly made. A stag night is a party for a man before his wedding, and stag as an adjective means for men only.
1nounstagA fully grown male deer.
“A stag with huge antlers stood at the edge of the forest.”
stag is a deer.
Old English stagga names a male animal, possibly influenced by Old Norse steggr, a male bird or animal.
Proto-Indo-European
*stegʰ-
Proto-Germanic
*staggijô
Old Norse
steggi
Old English
stagga
Middle English
stagge
English, today
stag
Built from
From Middle English stagge, steg, from Old English stagga, stacga (“a stag”) and possibly Old Norse steggi, steggr (“a male animal”), both from Proto-Germanic staggijô, staggijaz (“male, male deer, porcupine”), probably from Proto-Indo-European stegʰ-, stengʰ- (“to sting; rod, blade; sharp, stiff”). a doublet of steg. Cognate with Icelandic steggi, steggur (“tomcat, male fox”). Related to staggard, staggon.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA