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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 1055 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STY , an enclosed See also:

place or See also:pen to keep pigs in. The word means properly a pen or enclosure for any domestic See also:animal, as is seen from its occurrence in Scandinavian See also:languages and in See also:German, e.g. Swed. and Icel. stia, pen, gdsstia, See also:goose-pen, swinstia, See also:pig-sty, Ger. Steige, See also:hen-coop, Schweinsteige, pig-sty. It is usual to refer the word . to stigan, to climb, which would connect it with See also:stair and See also:stile and with the Gr. vmmiXety. Some take the See also:original meaning to be an enclosure raised on steps, others, in view of the Gr. o ro&Xoc, See also:row, would take the basic sense to be a row of See also:pales or stakes forming a pen or enclosure; cf. the use of (praxes for poles supporting nets to catch See also:game in ()Cen. Gyn. 6. ro). If the derivation from stigan is correct, the word is the same as that meaning a small inflamed swelling, See also:tumour or See also:abscess on the eyelid, the Old See also:English word for which was stigend, i.e. See also:short for stigend edge, a rising or swelling See also:eye, hence in M.

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