mynchen
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English mynchen, from Old English mynecen, from munec (“monk”). See monk.
Noun edit
mynchen (plural mynchens)
- (obsolete) A nun.
- 1899, William Hunt, A History of the English Church: Hunt, W. The English church from its foundation to the Norman conquest (597-1066):
- Another of these canons orders that the cells of mynchens (sanctimonialium domicilia) were not to be places of gossip, feasting, and drinking, but rather of reading and psalm-singing, than of weaving or sewing fine clothes.
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
- minchen, minchon, mynchon, mynchonn, mynchoun, mynchioun, myncheon, mynechene, meynchene, mynecene, menecene, munechon, muneche, munechene, munecene
Etymology edit
From Old English myneċenu; equivalent to monk + -en (feminine suffix).
Noun edit
mynchen (plural mynchens)
- (Christianity) A woman who is a member of a monastic order and who lives in a cloister; a nun.
Descendants edit
References edit
- “minchen, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 24 April 2018.