kin
noun
[ kɪn ]
• one's family and relations.
• "many elderly people have no kin to turn to for assistance"
Similar:
relatives,
relations,
family,
family members,
kindred,
connections,
clan,
tribe,
kith and kin,
one's own flesh and blood,
nearest and dearest,
kinsfolk,
kinsmen/kinswomen,
folks,
people,
kin
adjective
• (of a person) related.
• "he was kin to the brothers"
Origin:
Old English cynn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kunne, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘give birth to’, shared by Greek genos and Latin genus ‘race’.
-kin
suffix
• forming diminutive nouns such as bumpkin, catkin.
Origin:
from Middle Dutch -kijn, -ken, Middle Low German -kīn .
