Carol's questions for New Steve Was: Tempest in a teapot/cup/kettle

[Carol]

Cabal wrote:
> As an English teacher, I am mad at myself for not checking
entomology in the
> first place.
> 
> stag  
> c.1185, probably from O.E. *stagga "stag," from P.Gmc. *stag- (see
sting). The O.N. equivalent was used of male foxes, tomcats and
dragons and the Gmc. root word probably originally meant "male animal
in its prime." Meaning "pertaining to or composed of males only" (stag
party) is Amer.Eng. slang from 1848. Stag film "pornographic movie" is
attested from 1968.
>
Carol responds:

Can you give us your source, which is probably better than mine. I
confess to resorting to an online dictionary, Merriam-Webster.

What is "P. Gmc"? Proto-Germanic? Is that a synonym for Old Low
German? ("O.E." is obviously Old English, aka Anglo-Saxon and "O.N>"
is obviously Old Norse.)

BTW, I'm sure that you meant "etymology," not "entomology," the study
of insects.

Carol, who has made plenty of similar typos!