kin
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Etymology 1[edit]
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 *ǵn̥h₁yom, from *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”), 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 (génos, “kind, race”), Sanskrit जनस् (jánas, “kind, race”), Albanian dhen (“(herd of) small cattle”).
Noun[edit]
kin (countable and uncountable, plural kin)
- Race; family; breed; kind.
- (collectively) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
- c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
- You are of kin, and so must be a friend to their persons.
- 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 84:
- Based on the number of teeth ammonites had—nine—it's believed that their closest living kin are octopuses.
- c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
- One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
- Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Mansfield Park: A Novel. In Three Volumes, volume III, London: Printed for T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224, page 248:
- Such sensations, however, were too near a kin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.
- Kind; sort; manner; way.
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Further reading[edit]
- kin at OneLook Dictionary Search
Kin in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Adjective[edit]
kin (not comparable)
- 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.
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Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
kin (plural kins)
- A primitive Chinese musical instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Riemann to this entry?)
- 1840, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams, The Chinese Repository (page 40)
- If a musician were going to give a lecture upon the mathematical part of his art, he would find a very elegant substitute for the monochord in the Chinese kin.
Etymology 3[edit]
Noun[edit]
kin (plural kins)
- Alternative form of k'in
Etymology 4[edit]
Verb[edit]
kin
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Afrikaans[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Dutch kin, from Middle Dutch kinne, from Old Dutch kinni, from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus.
Noun[edit]
kin (plural kinne)
- Alternative form of ken.
Czech[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kin
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Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Dutch kinne, from Old Dutch kinni, from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kin f (plural kinnen, diminutive kinnetje n)
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Descendants[edit]
- Afrikaans: kin
Guinea-Bissau Creole[edit]
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kin
Hungarian[edit]
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Pronoun[edit]
kin
Ido[edit]
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Cardinal: kin Ordinal: kinesma Adverbial: kinfoye Multiplier: kinopla Fractional: kinima |
Etymology[edit]
From French cinq, Spanish cinco, Italian cinque, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.
Numeral[edit]
kin
- five (5)
Japanese[edit]
Romanization[edit]
kin
Min Nan[edit]
For pronunciation and definitions of kin – see 斤 (“catty, a unit of weight”). (This character, kin, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 斤.) |
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kin
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Synonyms[edit]
- (town): kin shijaaʼ, kin łání, kintah
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Ngarrindjeri[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
kin
Northern Kurdish[edit]
Adjective[edit]
kin ?
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West Frisian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Middle Low German kinne, kin, from Old Saxon kinni.
Noun[edit]
kin n (plural kinnen, diminutive kintsje)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “kin”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Yagara[edit]
Noun[edit]
kin
- Alternative form of ginn.
References[edit]
- State Library of Queensland, 2019 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ‘WORD OF THE WEEK’: WEEK EIGHTEEN., 13 May 2019.
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