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STY

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 1055 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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