mynchen

English

Etymology

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

Noun

mynchen (plural mynchens)

(obsolete) A nun.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mynchen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Middle English

Alternative forms

minchen, minchon, mynchon, mynchonn, mynchoun, mynchioun, myncheon, mynechene, meynchene, mynecene, menecene, munechon, muneche, munechene, munecene

Etymology

From Old English mynecen.

Noun

mynchen (plural mynchens)

(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.

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