Why is the kitchen called “The Kitchen” and not “The Cooking room” to follow suit with other room names Bedroom, Living Room, Bathroom etc.

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Why is the kitchen called “The Kitchen” and not “The Cooking room” to follow suit with other room names Bedroom, Living Room, Bathroom etc.

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kitchen (n.)
“room in which food is cooked, part of a building fitted out for cooking,” c. 1200, from Old English cycene “kitchen,” from Proto-Germanic *kokina (source also of Middle Dutch cökene, Old High German chuhhina, German Küche, Danish kjøkken), probably borrowed from Vulgar Latin *cocina (source also of French cuisine, Spanish cocina), a variant of Latin coquina “kitchen,” from fem. of coquinus “of cooks,” from coquus “cook,” from coquere “to cook”…

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