firewood

From Middle English ferwode, fyrewoode, equivalent to fire +‎ wood.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪ.ə(ɹ).wʊd/

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• (Upper RP Triphthong Smoothing) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ə(ɹ).wʊd/, /ˈfaː(ɹ).wʊd/, /ˈfɑ.ə(ɹ).wʊd/, /ˈfɑ.əː(ɹ).wʊd/
• (General American) enPR: fīʹərwo͝od, fīr, IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪ.ɚ.wʊd/, [ˈfaɪ.ɚ.wʊd]
• (Southern US, Appalachia) IPA^(key): [ˈfäː.ɚ.wʊd]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑe.ə(ɹ).wʊd/
• Rhymes: -ʊd

firewood (countable and uncountable, plural firewoods)

1. Wood intended to be burned, typically for heat.

   Hypernym: fuel

   Hyponym: firelog

   Coordinate terms: kindling, tinder

   After many days of hard work, we finally had enough firewood for the winter.

• Chinese Pidgin English: firewood, 快也𭉉 (Chinese spelling)

• woodfire

• 快也𭉉 (Chinese spelling)

From English firewood.

firewood

1. firewood
   • 1862, 唐景星 [Tong King-sing], 英語集全 [Chinese English Instructor], volume VI, marginalia, page 34; republished as “Pidgin English texts from the Chinese English Instructor”, in Michelle Li, Stephen Matthews, Geoff P. Smith, editors, Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics‎^[1], volume 10, number 1, 2005, pages 79-167:

     涉𪢍治快也𭉉窩打
     *ship³ get³ zhi⁶ faai³ jaa⁵ wut⁶ wo¹ daa²
     Ship catchee firewood, water.
     The ships provides^[sic] wood and water.