KIN (0. E. cyn, a word represented in nearly all

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• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic

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• LANGUAGES

languages, cf. Du. kunne,

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• DAN

Dan. and Swed. kon, Goth kuni, tribe; the Teutonic

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• BASE

base is kunya; the

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• EQUIVALENT

equivalent

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• ARYAN

Aryan

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• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root gan- to beget, produce, is seen in Gr. 'yEvos,

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• LAT

Lat. genus, cf. "

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• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

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 .