kiln
KILN (rhymes with "skill" + n, not "kill") · noun
Origin
Kiln comes from Middle English kilne, from Old English cyln, cylen, cylin, meaning a large oven or kiln. That word was borrowed from Latin culīna, meaning "kitchen" or "kitchen stove."
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Journey
The Latin word for a household kitchen narrowed over time into English into a term for a specialized furnace used for drying, hardening, or firing materials like brick and pottery.
Related words
Kiln shares its Latin root, culīna, with the English word culinary, tying a brick-firing furnace back to the kitchen stove.