Malcheen

Yola

Etymology

From *Malde (“Matilda”) +‎ -kin (“diminutive suffix”), cognate with English malkin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maɫˈkiːn/

Proper noun

Malcheen

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Maudie

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 55