Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *uhnazScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_uhnaz
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ἰπνόςwumpnisovenउखा
nounmasculinea-stemoven; furnaceAscribed to a Proto-Indo-European root *h₂uk-, *h₂ewk- (‘a closed container or vessel for cooking; cookpot; oven’) or similar by equation with Sanskrit उखा (ukhā), Albanian anë, Ancient Greek ἰπνός (ipnós), Latin ōlla. It is unclear whether the byform *ufnaz (Proto-West Germanic *ofn) is the same word, or represents a different word altogether. More at *aflaz.Kroonen suggests that the word is a Wanderwort from a pre-IE substrate language, adducing Hittite 𒄩𒀊𒁉𒈾𒀸 (ḫa-ap-pé-na-aš /ḫapːenas/, ‘baking kiln, fire-pit, broiler (oven)’), Old Prussian wumpnis (‘oven’) as additional cognates. Native terms for ovens and stoves are not taken for granted: the East Slavic term плита́ (plitá, ‘stove’) appears from Ancient Greek in the Middle Ages, against the earlier new formation печь (pečʹ, ‘oven’), and Arabic, in a warmer climate, seems to have many but no native terms: أَتُّون (ʔattūn), تَنُّور (tannūr), فُرْن (furn), قَمِين (qamīn).