chuhhina

Old High German

Alternative forms

  • chuchina, cuchina, cuhina
  • The normalized form *kuhhina is not attested.

Etymology

    From Proto-West Germanic *kukī̆na, from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna.

    Noun

    chuhhī̆na f

    1. kitchen

    Descendants

    • Middle High German: küchen, küche, (Central German also) küchene, (Upper German also) kuchen, kuche, kuchīn, kuchī
    • 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)

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