kiln

The story

1. Latin · derived fromculīna“kitchen, kitchen stove”
2. Old English · inherited fromcyln
3. Middle English · inherited fromkilne
4. English todaykiln

From Middle English kilne, from Old English cyln, cylen, cylin (“large oven, kiln”), from Latin culīna (“kitchen, kitchen stove”). Middle English -ln(e) usually becomes modern -ll as in mill. The pronunciation /kɪln/ may be based on dialects in which this simplification did not take place, but it must have been at least reinforced by spelling pronunciation.

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