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citizens
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?t.?.z?nz/
- Hyphenation: cit?i?zens
Noun
citizens
- plural of citizen
Anagrams
- zincites
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kin
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: k?n, IPA(key): /k?n/
- Rhymes: -?n
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 *kunj? (“race, generation, descent”), from Proto-Indo-European *?n?h?yom, from *?enh?- (“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 ????? (génos, “kind, race”), Sanskrit ???? (jánas, “kind, race”), Albanian dhen (“(herd of) small cattle”).
Noun
kin (countable and uncountable, plural 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.
- c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
- 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.
- Kind; sort; manner; way.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- kith
- clan
Further reading
- kin at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Kin in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Adjective
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.
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
kin (plural kins)
- A primitive Chinese musical instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
- 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.
- 1899, Hugo Riemann, Catechism of Musical History: History of musical instruments and history of tone-systems and notation
Etymology 3
Noun
kin (plural kins)
- Alternative form of k'in
Etymology 4
Verb
kin
- Pronunciation spelling of can.
Anagrams
- -nik, Nik, ink
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch kin, from Middle Dutch kinne, from Old Dutch kinni, from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *?énus.
Noun
kin (plural kinne)
- Alternative form of ken.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?k?n]
- Rhymes: -?n
Noun
kin
- genitive plural of kino
Anagrams
- nik
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch kinne, from Old Dutch kinni, from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *?énus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n/
- Hyphenation: kin
- Rhymes: -?n
Noun
kin f (plural kinnen, diminutive kinnetje n)
- chin
Derived terms
- kinlijn
- onderkin
Descendants
- Afrikaans: kin
Guinea-Bissau Creole
Pronoun
kin
- who
Hungarian
Etymology
ki +? -n
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?kin]
Pronoun
kin
- superessive singular of ki
Ido
Etymology
From French cinq, Spanish cinco, Italian cinque, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?e.
Numeral
kin
- five (5)
Japanese
Romanization
kin
- R?maji transcription of ??
Min Nan
Etymology
Compare Dogrib k??.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kx???n]
Noun
kin
- market, store
- house, cabin, building
- town
Inflection
Synonyms
- (town): kin shijaa?, kin ?ání, kintah
Derived terms
- k??h (“into the town”)
- kinsáá? (“ruin”)
See also
- hooghan
Ngarrindjeri
Pronoun
kin
- him
Northern Kurdish
Adjective
kin ?
- short
Synonyms
- kurt
- qut
- quse
West Frisian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n/
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Low German kinne, kin, from Old Saxon kinni.
Noun
kin n (plural kinnen, diminutive kintsje)
- chin
Derived terms
- ûnderkin
Further reading
- “kin”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Yagara
Noun
kin
- Alternative form of ginn.
References
- State Library of Queensland, 2019 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ‘WORD OF THE WEEK’: WEEK EIGHTEEN., 13 May 2019.
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