oven

oven
Meaning

Synonyms

fire-place

kitchen stove

baking oven

cooking stove

calorstat

cabinet drier

bake oven

iron box

mill furnace

reheating funace

heating-furnace

drying oven baker

constant temperature cabinet

thermostated container

bake out furnace

dry oven

earth oven

baking box

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʌ.vn̩/
Etymology

From Middle English oven, from Old English ofn, from Proto-West Germanic *ofn, from Proto-Germanic *uhnaz, *uhwnaz (compare Dutch oven, Low German Aven, West Frisian ûne, German Ofen, Danish ovn, Norwegian Bokmål ovn, Norwegian Nynorsk omn, Swedish ugn, Icelandic ofn, Finnish uuni, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌽𐍃 (auhns), probably from a Proto-Indo-European *aukʷ- (“cooking pot”), *Hukʷ-, *ukʷnos (compare Sanskrit उखा (ukhā), Albanian anë, Latin aulla, olla, Ancient Greek ἰπνός (ipnós)).

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