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German
Etymology
From Middle High German stal, from Old High German stal, from Proto-Germanic *stallaz.
Pronunciation
Noun
Stall m (strong, genitive Stalles or Stalls, plural Ställe, diminutive Ställchen n)
- 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”)
- (obsolete) synonym of Stelle, place something is situated, stead (occasionally with implication that something is “standing”, gestellt)
- (castle studies) ellipsis of Burgstall (“a meagre remainder of a castle less than a ruin”) (originally “the place of a castle”)
- (archaic or regional) 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)
Declension
Further reading
- “Stall” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Stall” in Duden online
Hunsrik
Pronunciation
Noun
Stall m (plural Stell, diminutive Stellche)
- pen; stable
Further reading
Luxembourgish
Etymology
From Old High German stal, from Proto-Germanic *stallaz.
Pronunciation
Noun
Stall m (plural Ställ)
- stable