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Where does the word "Kitchen" originate
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Is the word kitchen derived from another word? This is a question that I asked my teacher when I was 6 and she couldn't answer...thought it was about time I found out!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.No, it's definitely from Latin. In Old High German - more or less contemporaneous with Old English - 'kitchen' was 'chuhhina' and it did not take on the hard 'c/k' sound of 'K�che' until later. The 'c' of Latin 'coquina' and 'coquere' was already hard, as was the opening 'c' of Old English 'cycene'.
It looks to me awfully as if both Germanic and English versions owe their source to the Latin.
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