kiln
English
/kɪl(n)/
noun
Definitions
- An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English kilne inherited from Old English cylene derived from Latin culīna (kitchen stove, kitchen) root from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (cook, become ripe, bake).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*pekʷ-
Gloss
cook, become ripe, bake
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
炊
Emoji
🍚 👨🍳 👩🍳
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- brick English
- brickkiln English
- concoction English
- kilnlike English
- kitchenette English
- klin English
- lime English
- limekiln English
- precocious English
- precociousness English
- (persicum, persica) praecocia Latin
- coctilis Latin
- cocus Latin
- concoctiō Latin
- coquina Latin
- coquus Latin
- coquīna Latin
- coquō Latin
- coquō, coquo, coquere Latin
- culinaris Latin
- culinarius Latin
- culīna Latin
- culīnārius Latin
- decoctiō Latin
- decoquō Latin
- recoctus, recocta Latin
- terra Italian
- charcuterie French
- haute French
- précocité French
- δύσπεπτος Ancient Greek
- πέπων Ancient Greek
- πέψις Ancient Greek
- *pekʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- *pékʷ-ye- Proto-Indo-European
- *kukōną Proto-Germanic
- kölna Swedish
- cylene Old English
- पाचयति Sanskrit
- kilne Middle English
- *pekti Proto-Slavic
- *peťi Proto-Slavic
- *potъ Proto-Slavic
- bescuit Old French
- пухтан Persian
- پختن Persian
- *kʷokʷo- Proto-Celtic
- *kʷoxtos Proto-Celtic
- *pač- Proto-Indo-Iranian
- kølna Old Swedish
- *kʷekʷō Proto-Italic
- kepti Lithuanian
- päk- Tocharian B
- pewtene Zazaki
- päk- Tocharian A