Kin Definition
Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
- consanguineous
- consanguineal
- consanguine
- blood-related
- akin
- cognate
Other Word Forms of Kin
Noun
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Kin
- of kin
Origin of Kin
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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”).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old English cyn genə- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
ME < MDu -ken, -kijn, dim. suffix, akin to Ger -chen
From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition
Middle English probably from Middle Dutch -kijn, -kin
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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