Stall
German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German stal, from Old High German stal, from Proto-Germanic *stallaz.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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 edit
Declension of Stall [masculine, strong]
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Further reading edit
Hunsrik edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Stall m (plural Stell, diminutive Stellche)
Further reading edit
Luxembourgish edit
Etymology edit
From Old High German stal, from Proto-Germanic *stallaz.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Stall m (plural Ställ)