kin

See also: Kin, kín, kīn, -kin, kin-, k'in, and -kin-

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: kĭn, IPA(key): /kɪn/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪn

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 *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”), 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”), Albanian dhen (“(herd of) small cattle”).

Noun

kin (countable and uncountable, plural kin)

  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.
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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.
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Etymology 2

Noun

kin (plural kins)

  1. 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

Noun

kin (plural kins)

  1. Alternative form of k'in

Etymology 4

Verb

kin

  1. Pronunciation spelling of can.

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch kin, from Middle Dutch kinne, from Old Dutch kinni, from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus.

Noun

kin (plural kinne)

  1. chin

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkɪn]
  • Rhymes: -ɪn

Noun

kin

  1. genitive plural of kino

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪn
  • IPA(key): /kɪn/
  • audio(file)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch kinne, from Old Dutch kinni, from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus.

Noun

kin f (plural kinnen, diminutive kinnetje n)

  1. chin

Descendants

Hungarian

Etymology

ki +‎ -n

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkin]

Pronoun

kin

  1. superessive singular of ki

Ido

Ido cardinal numbers
 <  4 5 6  > 
    Cardinal : kin
    Ordinal : kinesma
    Adverbial : kinfoye
    Multiplier : kinopla
    Fractional : kinima
Ido Wikipedia article on kin

Etymology

From French cinq, Spanish cinco, Italian cinque, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.

Numeral

kin

  1. five (5)

Japanese

Romanization

kin

  1. Rōmaji transcription of きん

Kurdish

Adjective

kin ?

  1. short

Synonyms

Etymology

Compare Dogrib kǫ̀.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kxʲɪ̀n]

Noun

kin

  1. market, store
    Kingóó déyá. ― I am going to the store.
  2. house, cabin, building
  3. town

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Ngarrindjeri

Pronoun

kin

  1. him

West Frisian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɪn/

Etymology 1

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

Noun

kin n (plural kinnen, diminutive kintsje)

  1. chin
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

kin

  1. first and third person singular present tense of kinne.
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