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
  • 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)

Further reading

• kuhhina in Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch at Wörterbuchnetz