WotD: Fireplace Vocabulary I

[muckefuck]

Today the bulk of the furniture arrived for our refurbished living room and we decided to mark the occasion by basking in the warmth of the fireplace. Both monshu and I grew up depending on wood-burning fireplaces for heating, so it's going to take some getting used to clean-burning natural gas. We compared terminology for the various elements of a working hearth and it made me realise how few of those words I know translations for. So here's the first in a short series.

German

• Der Kamin "fireplace; chimney; flue"
• der offene Kamin "fireplace"
• die Feuerbüchse "firebox"
• der Schornstein "chimney"
• der Rauchabzug "flue"
• die Luftklappe "damper"
• die Feuerstätte "hearth"
• der/das Kaminsims "mantlepiece"
• der Ofenschirm "fire screen"
• das Feuergitter "fire guard"
• der Feuerrost "grate"
• der Feuerbock "fire-dog, andiron"
• das Kaminbesteck "fire irons"
• der Schürhaken "poker"
• der Kaminblasebalg "fireplace bellows"
• die Kaminzange "fire tongs"
• das Brennholz "firewood"
• der Kaminruß "chimney soot"

Comments

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

But you forgot the most important word!

If you're a fireplace owner and you're hideously careless, surely you'll need die Feuerlöscher, "the fire extinguisher" too ^o^.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

In all those years of having a fireplace in daily use, we never once needed one. I can see why this would be the most important word for you, however!

[pne.livejournal.com]

die Feuerlöscher is "the fire extinguishers". Singular would be "der" Feuerlöscher.