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German
Etymology
From sparen (“to save”) + Herd (“hearth”), because the closed construction with hotplates consumed less firewood or coal than an open fire; later just shortened to Herd.
Pronunciation
Noun
Sparherd m (strong, genitive Sparherdes or Sparherds, plural Sparherde)
- (obsolete) cookstove
1822, Ein Sparherd zum Kochen, Braten und Backen, München: Thienemann, page 3:Ihnen, hochverehrte deutsche Hausfrauen! die vieljährigen Erfahrungen Ihrer Schwestern in Betreff eines Sparherdes bekannt zu machen, ist der nächste Zweck dieser kleinen Schrift—der entferntere ist Verminderung der in unsern Küchen so allgemeinen Holzverschwendung.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “Sparherd” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Rainer Schlösser (2008) “Kochen in Südosteuropa: Zur Verbreitung des Wortes Sparherd”, in Wolfgang Dahmen, Petra Himstedt-Vaid, Gerhard Ressel, editors, Grenzüberschreitungen: Traditionen und Identitäten in Südosteuropa (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN