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Where does “fournée” come from?

fournée (French) comes from French four, from Old French forn, from Latin furnus, from Proto-Italic fornos, from Proto-Indo-European gʷʰr̥-nós, from Indo-European *gʷʰer-.

fournée (French): the capacity of an oven; batch

Definitions

  1. the capacity of an oven; batch

Ancestry of “fournée”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchfouroven; stove; flop
2Old Frenchfornoven
3Latinfurnusoven; bakery
4Proto-Italicfornos—
5Proto-Indo-Europeangʷʰr̥-nós—
6Indo-European*gʷʰer-—
Every word from Indo-European *gʷʰer- →