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CYCENE

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
CYCENE, cicene,an; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§310;
A kitchen; coquīna, culīna
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  • Cycene coquina, Wrt. Voc. 82, 49:

    culīna,

    Mone
    • B. 3731
    • .
  • Ðæt seó cycene [MS. kycene] eal forburne

    that the kitchen was all burning,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 166, 5,
    • 11.
  • Wurpon hí ða anlícnysse inn to heora cycenan [MS. kycenan]

    they cast the image into their kitchen,

    ii.
    • 166,
    • 3.
  • Gif ceorl hæfde cirican and cycenan [MS. kycenan]

    if a free man had a church and a kitchen,

    • L. R. 2
    • ;
    • Th. i. 190,
    • 15.
Etymology
[
Piers P. kytchen:
Chauc. kichen:
Plat. köke, käke:
Dut. keuken , f:
Kil. kokene, keuckene:
Ger. küche, f:
M. H. Ger. küche, kuchen, kuche, kuchen, f:
O. H. Ger. kuchina, f:
Dan. kjökken, n:
Swed. kök, n:
Icel. kock-hús:
Fr. cuisine, f:
Prov. cozina:
Span. cocina, f:
It. cucina, f:
Lat. coquīna, f:
Wel. cegin, f:
Corn. cegin, keghin, f:
Ir. cucann:
Armor. kegin:
Lith. kukne:
Russ. kuchnja
.]
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v.  cicene.
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  • CYCENE, n.