Stall

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See also: stall and ställ

German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German stal, from Old High German stal, from Proto-Germanic *stallaz.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʃtal/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -al

Noun

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Stall m (strong, genitive Stalles or Stalls, plural Ställe, diminutive Ställchen n)

  1. 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)
  2. Ellipsis of Hosenstall (fly of trousers)
  3. (obsolete) synonym of Stelle, place something is situated, stead (occasionally with implication that something is “standing”, gestellt)
  4. (castle studies) ellipsis of Burgstall (a meagre remainder of a castle less than a ruin) (originally “the place of a castle”)
  5. (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)

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Further reading

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  • Stall” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • Stall” in Duden online

Hunsrik

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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Stall m (plural Stell, diminutive Stellche)

  1. pen; stable

Further reading

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Luxembourgish

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Etymology

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From Old High German stal, from Proto-Germanic *stallaz.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Stall m (plural Ställ)

  1. stable