Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/stubu

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Uncertain; usually cited as borrowed from Medieval Latin stupha, stufa, stupa (“hypocaust, stove, heated room”), compare Italian stufa (“stove”), Old French estuve (“steam-bath”), from Vulgar Latin *extuphāre, *extufāre, *extupāre, from ex- + Ancient Greek τύφω (túphō, “to smoke”) + -āre. Alternatively, a native formation, from Proto-Germanic *stubō, related to *staumaz (“steam”), *steuban (“to throw up dust”), with the Latin borrowed from West Germanic. Also suggested to be derived from Latin aestuō (“to undulate; to warm”).

Noun

*stubu f

1. heated room
2. bath-room
3. stove, oven

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*stubu
Genitive	*stobā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*stubu	*stobō
Accusative	*stobā	*stobā
Genitive	*stobā	*stobō
Dative	*stubē	*stobōm, *stubum
Instrumental	*stubu	*stobōm, *stubum

Alternative reconstructions

• *stobu

Related terms

• *stobō

Descendants

• Old English: stofu, *stufu
  • Middle English: stuve, stufe, stuphe (spelling influenced by Medieval Latin stūpha)
    • English: stove (merged with a borrowing from Middle Dutch and/or Middle Low German)
    • Scots: stove, stofe, stoif, stoff
  • ⇒ Old English: stufbæþ
    • Middle English: stufbæþ, stufbaþe
• Old Frisian: *stofe, *stove
  • Saterland Frisian: Stove
  • West Frisian: stoof
• Old Saxon: *stuva, *stova
  • Middle Low German: stōve, stūbe, stūve
    • German Low German: Stuve, Stuuv, Stove, Stoov
      • → German: Stövchen
    • → Old Norse: stofa, stufa
      • Icelandic: stofa
      • Norwegian Nynorsk: stove
      • Old Swedish: stuva, stova, stugha
        • Swedish: stuga
      • Danish: stue
        • → Norwegian Bokmål: stue
• Old Dutch: *stova
  • Middle Dutch: stōve
    • Dutch: stoof
      • Afrikaans: stoof
• Old High German: stuba
  • Middle High German: stube
    • Alemannic German: Schtube, Schtub, Stube

      Swabian:

    • Bavarian:
    • Central Franconian: Stuvv

      Luxembourgish: Stuff

    • East Central German:

      Erzgebirgisch: [ˈʂʈuːp]

      Upper Saxon German:

      Vilamovian: śtuw

    • East Franconian:
    • German: Stube
    • Rhine Franconian: Stubb, Stobb, Stoob, Stow, Stuw

      Frankfurterisch: [ʃd̥up]

    • Yiddish: שטיבל (shtibl), שטוב (shtub)
      • → English: shtiebel
    • → Hungarian: szoba (see there for further descendants)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: soba
• →? Medieval Latin: stupha
  • Old French: estuve (“steam-bath”)
    • French: étuve
  • Italian: stufa (“stove”)
  • Occitan: estuba
  • Spanish: estufa
• →? Proto-Slavic: *jьstъbà (see there for further descendants)