fornal

Either from an earlier *fornau, from Latin fornax (“furnace”), or from Vulgar Latin *furnale, from furnus (“oven”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [furˈnal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [forˈnal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [foɾˈnal]

fornal m (plural fornals)

1. forge, hearth

   Synonyms: farga, forja

• “fornal”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• fornál (Przemyśl)
• furnál (Lasovia)

Inherited from Old Polish fornal, further etymology uncertain. Per Brückner, from German Vornagel,^[1] favored by Sławski, rejected by Bańkowski, who instead derives it from hypothetical German *vorn-eil-er.

• Rhymes: -ɔrnal
• Syllabification: for‧nal
• Homophone: Fornal

fornal m pers

1. (agriculture, historical) farmhand tending the horses

   Synonym: rataj

   Hypernyms: najmita, rolnik

2. (Kielce) synonym of woźnica

fornal m inan

1. drawbar hitch

   Hypernyms: hak, zaczep

• fornal in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fornal in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Jan Łoś (1886) “fornal”, in “Gwara opoczyńska. Studium dialektologiczne”, in Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności (1), volume 11, page 183