An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Stall
Stall, masculine, ‘stall, stable, sty,’ from Middle High German stal (ll), masculine and neuter, ‘standing or dwelling place, spot, stable,’ Old High German stal (ll), masculine, ‘stable, spot’; properly identical with Stelle. The two senses of the Old High German word are ramifications of a primary meaning, ‘standing-place.’ Corresponding to Dutch stal, ‘stable, stall,’ Anglo-Saxon steall, ‘stable, standing-place,’ English stall. The cognates (whence also stellen) are connected with the Aryan root stal, appearing in Stuhl. From Teutonic stallo- are derived the Romance cognates, Italian stallo, ‘spot,’ French étal, ‘butcher's bench,’ étau, ‘butcher's stall,’ Italian stalla, ‘stable,’ Italian stallone, French étalon, and the equivalent English stallion.