tuyere

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*tu-
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*þeutǭ“pipe, channel, flow”
3. Frankish · derived from*thūta“pipe”
4. Old French · derived fromtoiere“pipe-hole”
5. Middle French · derived fromtuyere
6. French · borrowed fromtuyère
7. English todaytuyere

From French tuyère, from Middle French tuyere, from Old French toiere (“pipe-hole”), from tuyau, tueil, tudel (“pipe”), from Frankish *thūta (“pipe”), from Proto-Germanic *þeutǭ (“pipe, channel, flow”), from *þeutaną (“to howl, roar, resound”), from Proto-Indo-European *tu-, *tutu- (“bird-cry, shriek”). Cognate with Old Saxon theuta (“pipe, water-channel”), Old High German watardioza (“water-opening”), Old English þēote (“pipe, channel”), Icelandic þjótandi (“the name of an artery”), Icelandic þjóta (“to rush, whistle”).

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