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KIN (0. E. cyn, a word represented in nearly all Teutonic languages, cf. Du. kunne, Dan. and Swed. kon, Goth kuni, tribe; the Teutonic base is kunya; the equivalent Aryan root gan- to beget, produce, is seen in Gr. 'yEvos, Lat. genus, cf. "kind")

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 801 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KHA-KRI
KIN (0. E. cyn, a word represented in nearly all Teutonic languages, cf. Du. kunne, Dan. and Swed. kon, Goth kuni, tribe; the Teutonic base is kunya; the equivalent Aryan root gan- to beget, produce, is seen in Gr. 'yEvos, Lat. genus, cf. "kind") , a collective word for persons related by blood, as descended from a common ancestor. In law, the
term
  " next of kin " is applied to the person or persons who, as being in the nearest degree of blood relationship to a person dying intestate, share according to
degree in his personal estate (see
INTESTACY
 , and
INHERITANCE
 ). " Kin " is frequently associated with " kith " in the phrase " kith and kin," now used as an emphasized form of " kin " for family relatives. It properly means one's " country and kin," or one's " friends and kin." Kith (O.E. cyMe and cy5, native
land
 , acquaintances) comes from the
stem
  of cunnan, to know, and thus means the
land
  or
people
  one knows familiarly.
The suffix -kin, chiefly surviving in
English
  surnames, seems to have been early used as a diminutive ending to certain
Christian
  names in
Flanders
  and Holland. The termination is represented by the diminutive -then in
German
 , as in Kindchen, Hduschen, &c. Many
English
  words, such as " pumpkin," " firkin," seem to have no diminutive significance, and may have been assimilated from earlier forms, e.g. " pumpkin " from " pumpion."


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