Where does “kitchen” come from?
Kitchen comes from Middle English kychyn, from Old English cycene, from Old English ċicen, from Latin coquina, ultimately from Latin coquo meaning to cook.
kitchen (English): A room or area for preparing food; Cuisine; The...
Definitions
- A room or area for preparing food; Cuisine; The...
Ancestry of “kitchen”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | kichene | A kitchen; room for food preparation |
| 2 | Old English | cyċen | — |
| 3 | Proto-West Germanic | kukinā | kitchen |
| 4 | Latin | cocīna | kitchen |
| 5 | Latin | coquīna | cooking; art of cookery |
| 6 | Latin | coquīnus | cook's |
| 7 | Latin | coquus | A cook; person who makes food |
| 8 | Latin | coquō | to cook; prepare food |
| 9 | English | Cook | A placename |
| 10 | German | kochen | to cook, to prepare food; to boil; to be stirred... |
| 11 | Middle High German | kochen | to cook |
| 12 | Old High German | kohhōn | to cook |
| 13 | Proto-Germanic | kukōną | to cook |
| 14 | Latin | coquere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 15 | Proto-Italic | kʷekʷō | to cook |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | pékʷeti | to be cooking; to ripen |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | pekʷ- | to cook; to ripen |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃-ép-kʷ- | — |