Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kukinā

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin cocīna, ultimately from Latin coquō (“cook”, verb).

Noun

*kukinā f^[1]

kitchen

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*kukinā
Genitive	*kukinōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*kukinā	*kukinōn
Accusative	*kukinōn	*kukinōn
Genitive	*kukinōn	*kukinōnō
Dative	*kukinōn	kukinōm, kukinum
Instrumental	*kukinōn	kukinōm, kukinum

Alternative forms

*kukīnā

Descendants

Old English: cyċene
- Middle English: kichene
  - 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
Old Frisian: *kuken, *koken, *keken
- West Frisian: koken, koaken
Old Saxon: *kukina
- Middle Low German: kȫkene, kȫken, kȫke
  - Low German:
    - Dutch Low Saxon: kökken
    - German Low German: Köken, Köke, Köök; (eastern) Käken, Käke, Kääk; (Westphalian) Küeken, Küeke
      - Plautdietsch: Kjäakj
  - → Danish: køkken
    - Norwegian Bokmål: kjøkken
      - → Northern Sami: gievkkan
  - → Estonian: köök
  - → Faroese: køkur
  - → Gutnish: kök
  - → North Frisian: köögem, köögen, Kööken
  - → Norwegian Nynorsk: kjøk, kjøken
  - → Saterland Frisian: Köäkene
  - → Old Swedish: køkia
    - Swedish: kök
      - → Finnish: kyökki
Old Dutch: *cukina
- Middle Dutch: cuekene
  - Dutch: keuken
  - Limburgish: keuke
Old High German: chuhhī̆na, *kuhhī̆na
- Middle High German: küchen, küche, (Central German also) küchene, (Upper German also) kuchen, kuche, kuchīn, kuchī
  - Alemannic German: Chuchi
    Swabian:
  - Bavarian: Kuche, Kuchl, (archaic) Kuchein
    Cimbrian: khuchl
    Mòcheno:
  - Central Franconian: Köch, Kech, Kich; Köche, Keche, Kiche
    Hunsrik: Kich
    Luxembourgish: Kichen
  - East Central German:
    Upper Saxon German:
    Vilamovian: kych
  - East Franconian:
  - German: Küche, (obsolete) Küchen
  - Rhine Franconian: Kich, Kiech, Kisch
    Pennsylvania German: Kich
  - Yiddish: קיך (kikh)
- → Czech: kuchyně
- → Old Polish: kuchnia (see there for further descendants)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: кухиња
  Latin script: kuhinja
- → Slovene: kuhinja
- → Hungarian: konyha (via some Slavic language)

References

^ Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135: “PWGmc *kukinā”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135: “PWGmc *kukinā”

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