kin
Meanings
- Race; family; breed; kind.
- 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.
- Related by blood or marriage, akin. (It is more common to form sentences using the noun instead.)
- Alternative form of qin (“Chinese string instrument”).
- To identify with; as in spiritually connect to a fictional or non-fictional being.
- A fictional or non-fictional being whom one spiritually connects to.
- Someone who identifies as a certain fictional character.
- Alternative form of k'in.
- Pronunciation spelling of can.
- Clipping of kinesiology.
- Alternative form of Jin.
- Clipping of Kinshasa.
Pronunciation
Word forms
Etymology
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”).