kychyn
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
- kytchen, kichene, küchen, cuchen, kuchene, kicen, kechyn, kychyne, kechoun, cuchyn, kytchyn, kichen, kychoun, kechene, kycchen, kitchen
Etymology edit
From Old English cyċene, from Proto-West Germanic *kukinā, from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kychyn (plural kychyns)
- kitchen (room for food preparation)
- cooking, cuisine
Descendants edit
- English: kitchen (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: kitchen, kitchin, ketchin, keetchen
- → Middle Irish: cisten
References edit
- “kichen(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.