mynchen

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

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.

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

From Old English myneċenu.

mynchen (plural mynchens)

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

• English: minchen, minch

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