stuga

Pronunciation: /²stʉ̟ːɡa/

“stuga” is a Swedish word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

a cottage, a cabin (small (wooden) house (in the countryside))
a room or hall serving a specific purpose
a heated room; a stove

Etymology

From Old Swedish stuva, stova, stugha, from Old Norse stofa, stufa, borrowed from Middle Low German stōve, stūve, Old Saxon *stova, *stuva, from Proto-West Germanic *stobu. Cognate with English stove. Also related to Finnish tupa. The change from v > g is due to a dialectal development from -β- > -w- > -ɣ- (g), compare ruva.

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