kichene

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === kechyn, kechyne, kichen, kitchene, kychen, kychin, kychyn, kychyne; kychoun (Late Middle English) kechen, kechene, kechon, kechone, kychene, kycchen (especially East Anglia, East Saxon, Kent) cuchene, cuchyn, kuchen, kuchene (West Midland); cochyn, kochyn (Cheshire); kechine (Lancashire) kechin, kechynne, kechyng, kichin, kytchyn (Northern, Northeast Midland); keching, ketchyne, kiching, kyching (Early Scots) === Etymology === Inherited from Old English cyċene, from Proto-West Germanic *kukinā, from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkit͡ʃən(ə)/ IPA(key): /ˈkɛt͡ʃən(ə)/ (East Anglia, East Saxon, Kent) IPA(key): /ˈkeːt͡ʃən/, /-in/ (Northern) IPA(key): /ˈkut͡ʃən(ə)/ (West Midland) === Noun === kichene (plural kichenes) A kitchen; room for food preparation. A kitchen department of a medieval household. (rare) Cooking; food or its preparation. ==== Descendants ==== English: kitchen (see there for further descendants) Middle Scots: kechin, keching, kiching Scots: kitchen, keetchin → 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. “kechin, ketching, keichin(g, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC. “kichin(g, kitchin(g, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC. Luick, Karl (1914-1921), Historische Grammatik der englischen Sprache‎[1], Erster Band, I. Abteilung, Leipzig: Chr. Herm. Tauchnitz, published 1921, →OCLC, § 375, pages 370-371. Zettersten, Arne (1965), Studies in the dialect and vocabulary of the Ancrene Riwle (Lund Studies in English; 34)‎[2], Lund: C. W. K. Gleerup, →OCLC, page 161.