English

farmstall

From farm + stall.

A compound of farm + stall

Medieval Latin ferma

Anglo-Norman ferme ‘rent, lease, farm’

Middle English ferme ‘rent, revenue’

English farm

Proto-Indo-European *stel- ‘to place, put, post, stand’

Proto-Germanic *stallaz ‘standing, position, stall, stable’

Old English steall ‘standing place, position’

Middle English stall

English stall

Today it means

noun A shop attached to a farm and selling its produce.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / farmstall