kychyn

Middle English

Alternative forms

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

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

• “kichen(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 3 April 2018.