kychyn

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • kytchen, kichene, küchen, cuchen, kuchene, kicen, kechyn, kychyne, kechoun, cuchyn, kytchyn, kichen, kychoun, kechene, kycchen, kitchen

Etymology

From Old English cyċene, from Proto-West Germanic *kukinā, from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkitʃən/

Noun

kychyn (plural kychyns)

  1. kitchen (room for food preparation)
  2. cooking, cuisine

Descendants

  • English: kitchen (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: kitchen, kitchin, ketchin, keetchen
  • → Middle Irish: cisten
    • Irish: cistin
    • Manx: kishteen, kishtyn
    • Scottish Gaelic: cidsin

References

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