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Definition kin
Etymology 1
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 *kunj? (“race, generation, descent”), from Proto-Indo-European *?n?h?yom, from *?enh?- (“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 křn (“gender, sex”), Swedish kön (“gender, sex”), Icelandic kyn (“gender”), and through Indo-European, with Latin genus (“kind, sort, ancestry, birth”), Ancient Greek ????? (génos, “kind, race”), Sanskrit ???? (jánas, “kind, race”), Albanian dhen (“(herd of) small cattle”).
Noun
kin (countable and uncountable, plural kin)
- Race; family; breed; kind.
- (collectively) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
- 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.
- Kind; sort; manner; way.
Adjective
kin (not comparable)
- Related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in "kin to".
Etymology 2
Noun
kin (plural kins)
- A primitive Chinese musical instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
Etymology 3
Noun
kin (plural kins)
- Alternative form of k'in
Etymology 4
Verb
kin
- Pronunciation spelling of can.
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