kin
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kin
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Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English kyn, from Old English cynn (“kind, sort, rank”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuni, 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”), Finnish kunnia (“honour, glory”), Ingrian kunnia (“reputation”), 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 kins or 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.
- 2016, Saraswati Raju, Santosh Jatrana, Women Workers in Urban India, page 280:
- Among those who derive information related to work from personal contacts, nonkins, rather than kins, constitute the most important sources even for women.
- Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 248:
- Such sensations, however, were too near a kin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.
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Further reading edit
- “kin”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Kin in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
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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
Borrowed from Mandarin 琴 (qín), from a non-palatal dialect akin to Peking; or less likely, from Japanese 琴 (kin).
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kin (plural kins)
- Alternative form of qin (“Chinese string instrument”)
- 1899, Hugo Riemann, Catechism of Musical History: History of musical instruments and history of tone-systems and notation:
- Originally they had only two cither-like instruments, which had flat sound-boxes without fingerboards, over which were strung rather a large number (25) of strings of twisted silk — the kin and tsche.
- 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
Clipping of fictionkin.
Verb edit
kin (third-person singular simple present kins, present participle kinning, simple past and past participle kinned)
- (transitive, fandom slang) To identify with; as in spiritually connect to a fictional or non-fictional being.
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kin (plural kins or kin)
- (fandom slang) A fictional or non-fictional being whom one spiritually connects to. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (fandom slang, in the form (character name) kin) Someone who identifies with a certain fictional character.
- Alternative form: kinnie
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kin (plural kins)
- Alternative form of k'in
Etymology 5 edit
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kin
- Pronunciation spelling of can.
- 1959 January 5, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 4:
- [Owl:] Oh I ain't stealin' this dime... I just took it for safe-keepin'.
[Turtle:] Ain't much you kin do with it—'cept make a phone call.
Etymology 6 edit
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kin (uncountable)
- (colloquial) Short for kinesiology.
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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.
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kin (plural kinne)
- Alternative form of ken
Azerbaijani edit
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kin (definite accusative kini, plural kinlər)
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nominative | kin |
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definite accusative | kini |
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dative | kinə |
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locative | kində |
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ablative | kindən |
kinlərdən | ||||||
definite genitive | kinin |
kinlərin |
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Further reading edit
- “kin” in Obastan.com.
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kin
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Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch kinne, from Old Dutch kinni, from Proto-West Germanic *kinnu, from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus.
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kin f (plural kinnen, diminutive kinnetje n)
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Guinea-Bissau Creole edit
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kin
Hokkien edit
For pronunciation and definitions of kin – see 斤 (“catty, a unit of weight”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 斤). |
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kin
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Cardinal: kin Ordinal: kinesma Adverbial: kinfoye Multiplier: kinopla Fractional: kinima |
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From French cinq, Spanish cinco, Italian cinque, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.
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kin
- five (5)
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kin
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kin
- Alternative form of kyn
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kin
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- (town): kin shijaaʼ, kin łání, kintah
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kin
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kin (comparative kintir, superlative herî kin)
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish كین (kin, “a grudge, concealed desire of revenge, malice”),.[1][2] from Persian كین (kin) or کینه (kine, “hatred, rancour, malevolence”)[3]
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kin (definite accusative kini, plural kinler)
- grudge, desire to take revenge
- Synonym: garaz
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References edit
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890), “كین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1615
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911), “كین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1069
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading edit
- “kin”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kin¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2675
West Frisian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle Low German kinne, kin, from Old Saxon kinni. The inherited Old Frisian form was zin.
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kin n (plural kinnen, diminutive kintsje)
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- “kin”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Yagara edit
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kin
- Alternative form of ginn.
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- State Library of Queensland, 2019 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ‘WORD OF THE WEEK’: WEEK EIGHTEEN., 13 May 2019.
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kin
- Alternative form of ken
- 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 100:
- Heal, griue, an kin, apaa thee, graacuse Forth,
- Health, wealth, and regard upon thee, gracious Forth,
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- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 49