What is the origin of スタンド meaning "desk lamp"?


I'm struggling to turn up any answers on why the word スタンド is used to mean
"desk lamp". My guess would be that it's a case of metonymy, but I don't know.




It's short for 電気【でんき】スタンド, which we can see in [sense ② in
Daijirin](http://www.weblio.jp/content/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89):

> ②「電気スタンド」の略【りゃく】。

Here, 略 means "abbreviation". And of course, 電気{でんき} means both "electricity"
and "[electric] light". Why does 電気 have this meaning? Well, most dictionaries
don't say, and I suppose _this_ could be simple metonymy, but when we look up
電気 in 日本国語大辞典, we find:

> ③（「⇨でんきとう（電気灯）の略）電灯{でんとう}。

So we could consider スタンド as indirectly short for 電気{でんき} "electric" 灯{とう}
"light" スタンド "stand".




It's short for 電気【でんき】スタンド, which we can see in [sense ② in
Daijirin](http://www.weblio.jp/content/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89):

> ②「電気スタンド」の略【りゃく】。

Here, 略 means "abbreviation". And of course, 電気{でんき} means both "electricity"
and "[electric] light". Why does 電気 have this meaning? Well, most dictionaries
don't say, and I suppose _this_ could be simple metonymy, but when we look up
電気 in 日本国語大辞典, we find:

> ③（「⇨でんきとう（電気灯）の略）電灯{でんとう}。

So we could consider スタンド as indirectly short for 電気{でんき} "electric" 灯{とう}
"light" スタンド "stand".

