English
go-stop
Go-stop comes from Korean 고스톱 ‘go-stop, a popular Korean card game played…’, and goes back to English go.
- English1500–presentgo
- Koreanmodern고스톱goseutop‘go-stop, a popular Korean card game played with hwatu cards’
- Englishearliest quotation 2012go-stop
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- English1500–presentgo
- Koreanmodern고스톱goseutop‘go-stop, a popular Korean card game played with hwatu cards’
- Englishearliest quotation 2012go-stop
Earliest quotation: 2012, Matthew Waterhouse, Everything but the kitchen sink: “Spot a group of old people playing cards in…”
Every English word from English go
Today it means
noun A popular Korean card game played with hwatu cards, similar to the Japanese game of koi-koi.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / English go / go-stop