sty

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• CMU ARPABET: S T AY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English sty, from Old English stī, stiġ (“sty, pen, a wooden enclosure; hall”, chiefly in compounds). Cognate with German Stiege (“wooden crate”), dialectal German Steige (“hen-coop”), Danish sti (“sty, enclosure for swine, sheep, hens, etc.”), Swedish stia (“sty for pigs, geese, etc.”), Norwegian sti (“flock of sheep”), Icelandic stía (“a kennel”).

From Middle English stien, stiȝen, stighen, from Old English stīgan (“to go; ascend, mount”), from Proto-West Germanic *stīgan, from Proto-Germanic *stīganą, from Proto-Indo-European *steygh-. Cognate with Dutch stijgen, German steigen, Danish stige, Norwegian Bokmål stige, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish stiga, Old Norse stíga.

From Middle English styanye, mistaken as "sty on eye" yet composed of Old English stīġend (“sty”, literally “riser”), agent noun from stīgan (“to rise”) + Middle English yë (“eye”).

53 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: кочина (kočina) — enclosure for swine
• Czech: chlívek — enclosure for swine
• Danish: sti — enclosure for swine
• Danish: svinesti — enclosure for swine
• Dutch: varkensstal — enclosure for swine
• Faroese: stíggjur — enclosure for swine
• Finnish: sikolätti — enclosure for swine
• French: porcherie — enclosure for swine
• Hungarian: disznóól — enclosure for swine
• Irish: cró muc — enclosure for swine
• Irish: cró muice — enclosure for swine
• Italian: porcile — enclosure for swine
• Japanese: 豚舎 (tonsha) — enclosure for swine
• Japanese: 豚小屋 (butagoya) — enclosure for swine
• Latin: hara — enclosure for swine
• Latvian: cūkkūts — enclosure for swine
• Latvian: cūku kūts — enclosure for swine
• Macedonian: ко́чина (kóčina) — enclosure for swine
• Macedonian: сви́њарник (svínjarnik) — enclosure for swine
• Māori: rāihe — enclosure for swine
• Māori: pākoro — enclosure for swine
• Māori: pākorokoro — enclosure for swine
• Polish: chlew — enclosure for swine
• Portuguese: chiqueiro — enclosure for swine
• Portuguese: pocilga — enclosure for swine
• Romanian: cocină — enclosure for swine
• Russian: хлев (xlev) — enclosure for swine
• Russian: свина́рник (svinárnik) — enclosure for swine
• Serbo-Croatian: svinjac — enclosure for swine
• Slovak: krmník — enclosure for swine
• Spanish: pocilga — enclosure for swine
• Swedish: stia — enclosure for swine
• Swedish: svinstia — enclosure for swine
• Ottoman Turkish: طوڭوزلق (doñuzluk) — enclosure for swine
• Bulgarian: кочина (kočina) — messy or dirty place
• Czech: chlív — messy or dirty place
• Danish: svinesti — messy or dirty place
• Dutch: varkensstal — messy or dirty place
• Finnish: läävä — messy or dirty place
• Finnish: sikolätti — messy or dirty place
• French: porcherie — messy or dirty place
• Hungarian: disznóól — messy or dirty place
• Japanese: 豚小屋 (butagoya) — messy or dirty place
• Latvian: cūkkūts — messy or dirty place
• Latvian: cūku kūts — messy or dirty place
• Macedonian: ко́чина (kóčina) — messy or dirty place
• Macedonian: сви́њарник (svínjarnik) — messy or dirty place
• Polish: chlew — messy or dirty place
• Portuguese: chiqueiro — messy or dirty place
• Russian: свина́рник (svinárnik) — messy or dirty place
• Serbo-Croatian: svinjac — messy or dirty place
• Swedish: stia — messy or dirty place
• Swedish: svinstia — messy or dirty place