Where does “stove” come from?
Stove comes from Middle Dutch stove, from Proto-Germanic stubō, from Latin extufare, meaning to fumigate or bathe in steam.
stove (English): A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the...
Definitions
- A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the...
Ancestry of “stove”, step by step
stove traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle Low German stove
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle Low German | stove | — |
| 2 | Old French | estuver | to bathe |
| 3 | Old French | estuve | large bath |
| 4 | Medieval Latin | stupha | — |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | τῦφος | a kind of fever; delusion, vanity; nonsense |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | τύφω | to smoke, fill with smoke; to consume in smoke |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | dhubh- | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | dheu- | scatter like dust |