Where does “fou” come from?

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

fou (Norman): oven

Definitions

  1. oven

Ancestry of “fou”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchfornoven
2Latinfurnusoven; bakery
3Proto-Italicfornos—
4Proto-Indo-Europeangʷʰr̥-nós—
5Indo-European*gʷʰer-—
Every word from Indo-European *gʷʰer- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European gʷʰr̥-nós →Every word from Proto-Italic fornos →