Stall.
stable, sty, shed, barn (building for keeping animals of all sorts); stall, sty (compartment within such a building); (loosely) pen (small outdoors area for keeping animals, properly Pferch)
Meaning & usage
stable, sty, shed, barn (building for keeping animals of all sorts); stall, sty (compartment within such a building); (loosely) pen (small outdoors area for keeping animals, properly Pferch)
ellipsis of Hosenstall (“fly of trousers”)
synonym of Stelle, place something is situated, stead (occasionally with implication that something is “standing”, gestellt)
ellipsis of Burgstall (“a meagre remainder of a castle less than a ruin”), originally “the place of a castle”
stale, i.e. the urine of horses or their act of urination (so called because they micturate, stallen, while standing, whereas they defecate in locomotion)
Where this word comes from
From Middle High German stal, from Old High German stal, from Proto-West Germanic *stall, from Proto-Germanic *stallaz.
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