Where does “woodstove” come from?
Woodstove is a compound of wood, from Old English wudu (via Middle English wood), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European widʰu-, and stove, a separate word denoting a heating apparatus.
woodstove (English): A stove that burns wood, or is designed to do so
Definitions
- A stove that burns wood, or is designed to do so
Ancestry of “woodstove”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | stove | A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the... |
| 2 | Middle Low German | stove | — |
| 3 | Old French | estuver | to bathe |
| 4 | Old French | estuve | large bath |
| 5 | Medieval Latin | stupha | — |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | τῦφος | a kind of fever; delusion, vanity; nonsense |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | τύφω | to smoke, fill with smoke; to consume in smoke |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | dhubh- | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | dheu- | scatter like dust |