Stall
Pronunciation: /ʃtal/
“Stall” is a German word. Its 3 meanings in English:
noun
- 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)
- synonym of Stelle, place something is situated, stead (occasionally with implication that something is “standing”, gestellt)
- 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)
Etymology
From Middle High German stal, from Old High German stal, from Proto-West Germanic *stall, from Proto-Germanic *stallaz.
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