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Etymologically related with Latin fornus, furnus ‘oven’. Russian горн (gorn) ‘blacksmith's furnace, forge, hearth’, Russian dialect горн ‘campfire, fireplace’, Belarusan горан ‘blacksmith's furnace, forge’, гарно ‘fireplace’, Ukrainian горно ‘blacksmith's furnace, furnace for heating or melting metals’, Slovak grno 'forge bellows', in Serbo-Croatian grno 'coals for heating iron in the smithy', Czech hrnek ‘pot’, Slovak hrnok ‘pot’, Polabian gornăk ‘milk pot’ and Polish garnek ‘pot, stew pan’, Bulgarian dialect гърнец, грънец ‘big pot’, Macedonian грнец ‘big pot’, Serbo-Croatian грнац ‘pot’, грнци pl. ‘oven (from clay)’, Slovene gŕnec ‘pot’, Czech hrnec ‘pot, stew pan’, Slovak hrniec ‘pot, stew pan’, Upper Sorbian hornc ‘pot’, Lower Sorbian gjarnc ‘pot’, Old Polish garnec, Polish garniec ‘(big) pot', ‘measure of capacity’, Old East Slavic, Russian Church Slavonic гърньць, гръньцъ, горнець ‘pot’, Old Ukrainian горцѣ, горнцѣ ‘pots’, Ukrainian горнець ‘pot’, dialect гурнец ‘pot’. ESSJa 7, 210-211, SRNG 7, 46, Slounik.org, SUM-11 |
the ancient method of smelting metals, when the ore was placed in an earthen pot. Ivanov 1983, 20, Trubačev 1966, 198-199.