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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 749 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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STABLE , a See also:

BUILDING

building in which horses are kept, including the See also:

STALL (0. Eng. steall, stael, cf. Du. stal, Ger. and Swed. Stall, a common Teutonic word for a place, station, place for standing in; the root is the Indo-European std–, to stand, seen also in Latin stabulum, Greek vraO bs, and in stallion, an entire hors

stall in which they stand, furnished with manger and See also:

RACK

rack, the See also:

ROOM

room in which the See also:

HARNESS (from O. Fr. harneis or harnois; the ultimate origin is obscure; the Celtic origin which connects it with the Welsh haiarn, iron, has phonetic and other difficulties; the French is the origin of the Span. arnes, and Ger. Harnisch)

harness is kept and attended to, the See also:

LOFT (connected with " lift," i.e. raised in the air; O. Eng. lyft; cf. Ger. Luft; the French term is grenier and Ger. Boden)

loft in which the See also:

hay and See also:

corn are stored, and other See also:

ACCESSORY

accessory rooms, &c. (See See also:

HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

HORSE.) This is the current usage, but the word was formerly applied, as was the Latin stabulum, i.e. See also:

STANDING

standing-See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place (from stare, to stand), to a stall or enclosure for all kinds of domestic animals, cows, See also:

sheep, &c. The See also:

ADJECTIVE (from the Lat. adjectives, added)

adjective " stable," meaning firmly established, comes directly from Latin stabilis, also from stare, to stand.

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