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stuga.

a cottage, a cabin (small (wooden) house (in the countryside))

5 characters2 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

noun/²stʉ̟ːɡa/

  1. a cottage, a cabin (small (wooden) house (in the countryside))

    common-gender
    en stuga på landet
    hyra stuga i fjällen

  2. a room or hall serving a specific purpose

    common-gender · especially · in-compounds
    tvättstuga

  3. a heated room; a stove

    common-gender · dialectal · obsolete
Where this word comes from

From Old Swedish stuva, stova, stugha, from Old Norse stofa, stufa, borrowed from Middle Low German stōve, stūve, Old Saxon *stova, *stuva, from Proto-West Germanic *stobu. Cognate with English stove. Also related to Finnish tupa. The change from v > g is due to a dialectal development from -β- > -w- > -ɣ- (g), compare ruva.

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