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Stall

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See also: stall and ställ

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)

  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)

Declension

Declension of Stall [masculine, strong]
More information singular, plural ...

1Now rare, see notes.

Further reading

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

Pronunciation

Noun

Stall m (plural Stell, diminutive Stellche)

  1. pen; stable

Further reading

  • Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Stall”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch

Luxembourgish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

Stall m (plural Ställ)

  1. stable

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