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語源 1

From 中期英語 kyn, from 古期英語 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”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk kjønn (“gender, sex”), Swedish kön (“gender, sex”), Faroese and 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”).

名詞

kin (countable and uncountable, plural kins or kin)

1. Race; family; breed; kind.

   the starfish and its kin the sea urchin

2. (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.

   • 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 84:

     Based on the number of teeth ammonites had—nine—it's believed that their closest living kin are octopuses.

3. One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
   • 2016, Saraswati Raju, Santosh Jatrana, Women Workers in Urban India, page 280:

     Among those who derive information related to work from personal contacts, nonkins, rather than kins, constitute the most important sources even for women.

4. Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
   • 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 248:

     Such sensations, however, were too near a kin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.

派生語

参考

• kith
• clan

Further reading

• “kin”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Kin in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

形容詞

kin (not comparable)

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

   It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers.

   • 1914, Zona Gale, Neighborhood Stories, page 155:

     ... and our feeling together had made us forget what-ever there'd been between us to forget about. And I ain't ever in my life felt so kin to folks. I felt kinner than I knew I was. That night, tired as I was, I walked […]

   • 1925, Therese Kayser Lindsey, Blue Norther: Texas Poems, page 53:

     How serenely Earth keeps on her business! […] Yielding powers to man's hand / While he burrows in her sand, / […] How kin is she to man, who sips / Nourishment with boasting lips, / Detached, but inalienably bound /To be suckled […]

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:kin.

語源 2

Borrowed from Mandarin 琴 (qín), from a non-palatal dialect akin to Peking; or less likely, from Japanese 琴 (kin).

名詞

kin (plural kins)

1. Alternative form of qin (“Chinese string instrument”).
   • 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.

語源 3

Clipping of fictionkin.

動詞

kin (third-person singular simple present kins, present participle kinning, simple past and past participle kinned)

1. (transitive, fandom slang) To identify with; as in spiritually connect to a fictional or non-fictional being.

名詞

kin (plural kins or kin)

1. (fandom slang) A fictional or non-fictional being whom one spiritually connects to. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. (fandom slang, in the form (character name) kin) Someone who identifies as a certain fictional character.

   Alternative form: kinnie

語源 4

名詞

kin (plural kins)

1. Alternative form of k'in.

語源 5

動詞

kin

1. Pronunciation spelling of can.
   • 1959 January 5, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 4:

     [Owl:] Oh I ain't stealin' this dime... I just took it for safe-keepin'.
     [Turtle:] Ain't much you kin do with it—'cept make a phone call.

語源 6

名詞

kin (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) Clipping of kinesiology.

アナグラム

• -nik, Nik, ink

語源

From interleukin.

接合辞

-kin-

1. (pharmacology) a monoclonal antibody that targets interleukins

派生語

関連する語

• -mab is the base suffix common to all monoclonal antibodies. (See that entry for full paradigm.)

アナグラム

• -nik, Nik, ink

別の表記

• kin

名詞

k'in (plural k'ins)

1. A day, in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar.

アナグラム

• -nik, Nik, ink