English

fan oven

From fan + oven.

A compound of fan + oven

Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- ‘to blow’

Latin vannus ‘fan for winnowing grain’

Old English fann ‘a winnowing fan’

Middle English fan

English fan

Proto-Germanic *uhnaz

Proto-West Germanic *ofn

Old English ofn

Middle English oven ‘an oven’

English oven

Today it means

noun Synonym of convection oven.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / fan oven