ватог

Of Oghur origin, from Proto-Turkic *ōtag. Cognate with Turkish oda (“room”), whence dialectal Bulgarian одая (odaja, “storage room”).

Probably cognate with Old Church Slavonic ватахъ (vataxŭ, “chief, commander”).

ва́тог • (vátog) m

1. (dialectal) hearth

   Synonyms: наклада (naklada), огнище (ognište), пещник (peštnik)

• ватра (vatra, “torch”) (possibly)
• ватах (vatah, “chief-master of pottery furnace”) (possibly)
• одая (odaja, “room of a village house”)

• Georgiev V. I., editor (1971), “ватра”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, page 123