Ofen.
clipping of Backofen (“oven”)
Meaning & usage
clipping of Backofen (“oven”)
stove
furnace
clipping of Brennofen (“kiln”)
Where this word comes from
From Middle High German oven, from Old High German ofan, from Proto-West Germanic *ofn. Cognates See also Dutch oven, Low German Aven, German Low German Aven, Awen, Owen, West Frisian ûne, English oven, Danish ovn, Swedish ugn, Icelandic ofn, Gothic auhns; also Sanskrit उखा (ukhā), Albanian anë, Latin aulla, olla, Ancient Greek ἰπνός (ipnós).
Buda, the western part of the Hungarian capital Budapest.
Where this word comes from
From Ofen (“furnace”), a literal translation of the Hungarian name of neighbouring Pest, by conflation, from Old Church Slavonic пещь (peštĭ, “furnace, oven”).
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