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ugn.

an oven (chamber used for baking or heating)

3 characters1 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

noun/ɵŋn/

  1. an oven (chamber used for baking or heating)

    common-gender
    Förvärm ugnen till 175 °C.
    Alla barnen tittade in i ugnen förutom Rut. Hon tittade ut.

  2. a furnace (for industrial use or the like)

    common-gender
Where this word comes from

From Old Swedish ughn, oghn, from Old Norse *ogn (variant of Old Norse ofn), from Proto-Germanic *uhnaz, *uhwnaz (compare Danish and Norwegian ovn, Icelandic ofn, Dutch oven, Low German Aven, West Frisian ûne, German Ofen, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌽𐍃 (auhns)), probably from a Proto-Indo-European *aukw- (“cooking pot”), *Hukʷ-, *ukwnos.

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