STY  , an enclosed See also:

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

place or See also:

• PEN (Lat. penna, a feather, pen)

pen to keep pigs in . The word means properly a pen or enclosure for any domestic See also:

• ANIMAL
• ANIMAL (Lat. animalis, from anima, breath, soul)

animal, as is seen from its occurrence in Scandinavian See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages and in See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German, e.g . Swed. and Icel. stia, pen, gdsstia, See also:

• GOOSE (a common Teut. word, O. Eng. gOs, pl. ges, Ger. Gans, O. Norse gas, from Aryan root, ghans, whence Sans. hansa, Lat. anser (for hanser)
• GOOSE (GAME OF)

goose-pen, swinstia, See also:

• PIG
• PIG (a word of obscure origin, connected with the Low Ger. and Dut. word of the same meaning, bigge)

pig-sty, Ger . Steige, See also:

• HEN

hen-coop, Schweinsteige, pig-sty . It is usual to refer the word . to stigan, to climb, which would connect it with See also:

• STAIR (0. Eng. stagger, step, from stigan, to climb, cf. Ger. steigen; the root is also seen in " stile " and " stirrup ")
• STAIR, JAMES DALRYMPLE

stair and See also:

• STILE

stile and with the Gr. vmmiXety . Some take the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original meaning to be an enclosure raised on steps, others, in view of the Gr. o ro&Xoc, See also:

• ROW, JOHN (c. 1525—1580)

row, would take the basic sense to be a row of See also:

• PALES

pales or stakes forming a pen or enclosure; cf. the use of (praxes for poles supporting nets to catch See also:

• GAME

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 (Lat. tumor, a swelling)

tumour or See also:

• ABSCESS (from Lat. abscedere, to separate)

abscess on the eyelid, the Old See also:

• ENGLISH

English word for which was stigend, i.e. See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short for stigend edge, a rising or swelling See also:

• EYE
• EYE (O. Eng. edge, Ger. Auge; derived from an Indo-European root also seen in Lat. oc-ulus, the organ of vision (q.v.)

eye, hence in M .