kin

See also kín, -kin, and kin-

English

Etymology

From Middle English kin, kyn, ken, kun, from Old English cynn (“kind, sort, rank, quality, family, generation, offspring, pedigree, kin, race, people, gender, sex, propriety, etiquette”), from Proto-Germanic *kunją (“race, generation, descent”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to produce”). Cognate with Scots kin (“relatives, kinfolk”), North Frisian kinn, kenn (“gender, race, family, kinship”), Dutch kunne (“gender, sex”), Middle Low German kunne (“gender, sex, race, family, lineage”), German Künne, Kunne (“kin, kind, race”), Danish køn (“gender, sex”), Swedish kön (“gender, sex”), Icelandic kyn (“gender”), and through Indo-European, with Latin genus (“kind, sort, ancestry, birth”), Ancient Greek γένος (genos, “kind, race”), Albanian dhen (“(herd of) small cattle”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kĭn, IPA: /kɪn/, X-SAMPA: /kIn/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪn

Noun

kin (uncountable)

1. Race; family; breed; kind.
2. (collectively) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
   • Francis Bacon

     You are of kin, and so a friend to their persons.

3. One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
4. Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
5. Kind; sort; manner; way.

Anagrams

• ink

Derived terms

• akin
• kind
• kindred
• kinfolk
• kinship
• kinsman
• kinswoman
• kith and kin
• next of kin

See also

• kith
• clan

External links

• Kin in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

Translations

relative — see relative

relatives collectively

• Armenian: ցեղ (hy) (c’eġ), տոհմ (hy) (tohm)

  Old Armenian: ցեղ (c’eł), տոհմ (tohm), զարմ (zarm)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 親屬 (cmn), 亲属 (cmn) (qīnshǔ), 親族 (cmn), 亲族 (cmn) (qīnzú)

• Dutch: verwanten (nl)
• Finnish: suku (fi)
• French: proches (fr) m pl
• German: Verwandtschaft (de) f, Verwandte (de) pl

• Greek: συγγενείς (el) (sigenís) m pl and f pl, οικογένεια (el) (ikogénia) f
• Hungarian: rokonság (hu)
• Icelandic: ættmenni (is) n pl, skyldmenni n pl
• Japanese: 親族 (ja) (しんぞく, shinzoku)
• Russian: родня (ru) (rodnjá) f, родственники (ru) (ródstvenniki) m pl, родичи (ru) (ródiči) m pl, сородичи (ru) (soródiči) m pl
• Scottish Gaelic: càirdeas (gd) m
• Slovene: sorodstvo (sl) n
• ǃXóõ: tâa,ǃkxʻái

Adjective

kin (not comparable)

1. Related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in "kin to".

   It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers.

Translations

related by blood or marriage

• Finnish: sukua
• Icelandic: skyldur (is)

• Scottish Gaelic: càirdeach (gd)
• Tamil: கேளிர் (ta)

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch kinne, from Old Dutch kinni, from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénu-, *ǵénus. Compare Low German and German Kinn, English chin, Danish kind, Icelandic kinn.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪn
• IPA: /kɪn/

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Noun

kin m, f (plural kinnen, diminutive kinnetje)

1. (anatomy) chin

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Ido

Cardinal numeral

kin

1. five (5)

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Japanese

See also kiin

Romanization

kin

1. See きん

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Kurdish

Adjective

kin gender unspecified

1. short

Synonyms

• kurt
• qut
• quse

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Lojban

Rafsi

kin

1. rafsi of skina.

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Navajo

Pronunciation

• IPA: [kxɪ̀n]

Noun

kin

1. market
2. house, cabin, building
3. town

Synonyms

• (town): kin shijaaʼ, kin łání

See also

• hooghan

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Ngarrindjeri

Pronoun

kin

1. him

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Tai Dam

Etymology

Compare Lao ກິນ (kin) and Thai กิน (gin)

Verb

kin

1. to eat

References

• http://www.seasite.niu.edu/tai/taidam/alphabet.htm

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West Frisian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Low German kinne, kin, from Old Saxon kinni, from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz. Cf. also Dutch kin. Compare Old Frisian zin, English chin.

Noun

kin

1. chin

Verb

kin

1. I can