mynchen

English

Etymology

From Middle English mynchen, from Old English mynecen, from munec (“monk”). See monk.

Noun

mynchen (plural mynchens)

1. (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; equivalent to monk +‎ -en (feminine suffix).

Noun

mynchen (plural mynchens)

1. (Christianity) A woman who is a member of a monastic order and who lives in a cloister; a nun.

Descendants

• English: minchen, minch

References

• “minchen, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 24 April 2018.