kitchen English · revision 4162

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1000|origins=la coquina}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ˈkɪtʃ.ɪn/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|kuchene]], kichene,^(Barnhart 1988) [[inh|ang|cyċene]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986) which with Middle Dutch cökene, Old High German chuhhina, German Küche and Danish kjøkken goes back to [[gmw-pro|*kokina]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(MWU 2024) probably [[bor|la-vul|*cocīna]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(AHD 2000) a variant of [[la|coquīna|t=kitchen]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) the feminine of coquīnus “of cooks”, from [[m|la|coquus|t=cook]], from coquere “to cook”,^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(AHD 2000) from [[ine-pro|*pekʷ-|alt=*pekw-|t=to cook, ripen]].^(Etymonline)^(AHD 2000) The same Latin word gave French [[cuisine]] and Spanish cocina.^(Etymonline)^(Klein 1966) Barnhart notes that Old High German chuhhina was borrowed before the High German consonant shift.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The room where food is cooked: about 1000 in the OED,^(OED 1989) and Old English about 1000 in Barnhart.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cooking itself, the culinary art, is recorded from the 14th century but is obsolete,^(OED 1989) and a kitchen as the culinary department, a [[cuisine]], is from 1679.^(OED 1989) The kitchen as the stomach is from about 1470.^(OED 1989) The ''kitchen cabinet'', an informal but powerful set of advisers, is American slang from 1832,^(Etymonline) first of President Andrew Jackson's intimates.^(Etymonline) The ''kitchen midden'' of archaeology (1863) translates Danish kjøkkenmødding.^(Etymonline) ''Everything but the kitchen sink'' seems to come from forces slang of the Second World War, of a heavy bombardment.^(Cresswell 2021) A ''kitchenette'' is American, from 1910.^(Barnhart 1988) In 1931 the kitchen was slang for the percussion section of a band.^(OED 1989) In Scots and northern dialect, kitchen is also anything eaten with bread or potatoes as a relish, and the verb, from 1721, means to season or to make go far.^(OED 1989)^(Wright 1898)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1000 – a room for cooking.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * c. 1470 – figuratively, the stomach.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1679 – the culinary department.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1721 – Scots verb, to season.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1832 – ''kitchen cabinet''.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1910 – ''kitchenette''.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A room or area equipped for preparing and [[cook]]ing food.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # A style of cooking; [[cuisine]].^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # The staff who prepare, cook and serve food, as in a restaurant.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[kitchenless]]

+ * [[kitcheny]]

+ * [[outkitchen]]

+ * [[kitchenette]]

+ * [[kitchener]]

+ * [[kitchenware]]

+ * [[diet kitchen]]

+ * [[summer kitchen]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cook]]

+ * [[cuisine]]

+ * [[culinary]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}