mynchen
English
Etymology
From Middle English mynchen, from Old English mynecen, from munec (“monk”). See monk.
Noun
mynchen (plural mynchens)
- (obsolete) A nun.
- 1899, William Hunt, A History of the English Church: Hunt, W. The English church from its foundation to the Norman conquest (597-1066):
- Another of these canons orders that the cells of mynchens (sanctimonialium domicilia) were not to be places of gossip, feasting, and drinking, but rather of reading and psalm-singing, than of weaving or sewing fine clothes.
Middle English
Alternative forms
minchen, minchon, mynchon, mynchonn, mynchoun, mynchioun, myncheon, mynechene, meynchene, mynecene, menecene, munechon, muneche, munechene, munecene
Etymology
From Old English myneċenu.
Noun
mynchen (plural mynchens)
- (Christianity) A woman who is a member of a monastic order and who lives in a cloister; a nun.
Descendants
References
- “minchen, (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 24 April 2018.
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