kin

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Race; family; breed; kind.
2. (collective, countable, uncountable) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
3. (countable, uncountable) One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
4. (countable, uncountable) Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.

Adj

Related by blood or marriage, akin. (It is more common to form sentences using the noun instead.)

Verb

To identify with; as in spiritually connect to a fictional or non-fictional being.

Verb

Pronunciation spelling of can.

Sinonieme

family

👪

relatives

relative

clan

kindred

relation

kinsfolk

kinsman

relations

consanguineal

kinfolk

family member

kinship

cognate

akin

relationship

folk

folks

consanguine

household

related

consanguineous

blood

🩸

tribe

kinsperson

kith

blood-related

agnate

kin group

kinship group

line

ancestry

race

house

🏠

genus

connection

people

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

gender

lineage

stock

kind

relatives and friends

monme

my relation

affinity

my relative

bloodline

blood relation

breed

brethren

Vertalings

famille

👪

parent

parents

família

👪

Sippe

συγγενής

pariente

familie

familia

👪

οικογένεια

γένος

συγγένεια

parent

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/kɪn/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: kyn

Geërf van Old English: cynn

Verwante met Skots: kin

Verwante met Noord-Fries: kinn

Verwante met Nederlands: kunne

Verwante met Middle Low German: kunne

Verwante met Deens: køn

Verwante met Sweeds: kön

Verwante met Yslands: kyn

Verwante met Fins: kunnia

Verwante met Ingrian: kunnia

In summary

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”).