kin
SubstantivAdjektivSubstantivVerbSubstantivSubstantivVerbSubstantivhäufig in Dialogen
- //kɪn//
- /[k̟ʰɪn]/
Race; family; breed; kind.
Substantiv
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Race; family; breed; kind.
the starfish and its kin the sea urchin
- 2
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.
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.
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.
Such sensations, however, were too near a kin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.
Herkunft
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”), 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”).
Adjektiv
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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.
... 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[…]
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.
Substantiv
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Variante von qinAlternative form of qin (“Chinese string instrument”).
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.
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.
Herkunft
Borrowed from Mandarin 琴 (qín), from a non-palatal dialect akin to Peking; or less likely, from Japanese 琴 (kin).
Verb
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SlangTo identify with; as in spiritually connect to a fictional or non-fictional being.
Herkunft
Clipping of fictionkin.
Substantiv
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SlangA fictional or non-fictional being whom one spiritually connects to.
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SlangSomeone who identifies as a certain fictional character.
Substantiv
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Variante von k'inAlternative form of k'in.
Verb
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Variante von canPronunciation spelling of can.
[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.
Substantiv
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Variante von kinesiologyClipping of kinesiology.
Formen
- Plural
- kins
- Präteritum
- kinned
- Partizip II
- kinned
- Partizip I
- kinning
- 3. Person Singular
- kins