small, portable clay ovens called "tanoorim" or "tanoor"

Veering a little from the topic, but there's a striking similarity between this word and the tandoor of India - a small clay oven. Facts, ideas, theories or wild speculation on the roots of this similarity?

I'd speculately wildly that since a clay oven is an old old thang, it's likely that "tanoor" and "tandoor" are cognates from the Ur-language. Linguist Alexis Manaster Ramer calls it Nostratic:

If Dr. Manaster Ramer is right, his discovery will provide ammunition for a small group of linguists who make the controversial claim that Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic and other language families like Afro-Asiatic, which includes Arabic and Hebrew, the Kartvelian languages of the South Caucasus and the Dravidian languages concentrated in southern India, all are descendants of Nostratic, which was spoken more than 12,000 years ago.

For more, see:
http://www.santafe.edu/~johnson/articles.nostratic.html


And thanks for the explanations on Easter and Pesach!