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)

kitchen (room for food preparation)
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

“kichen(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

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