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”) / synonym of Stelle, place something is situated, stead (occasionally with implication that something is “standing”, gestellt) / ellipsis of Burgstall (“a meagre remainder of a castle less than a ruin”) (originally “the place of a castle”) / 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)