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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 801 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KIN (0. E. cyn, a word represented in nearly all Teutonic
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languages, cf. Du. kunne,
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Dan. and Swed. kon, Goth kuni, tribe; the Teutonic
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base is kunya; the
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equivalent
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Aryan root gan- to beget, produce, is seen in Gr. 'yEvos,
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Lat. genus, cf. "kind")
  , a collective word for persons related by
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blood, as descended from a
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common ancestor . In law, the
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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
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personal estate (see INTESTACY, and
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INHERITANCE) . " Kin " is frequently associated with " kith " in the phrase " kith and kin," now used as an emphasized form of " kin " for
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family relatives . It properly means one's " country and kin," or one's " friends and kin." Kith (O.E. cyMe and cy5, native
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land, acquaintances) comes from the stem of cunnan, to know, and thus means the land or
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people one knows familiarly . The suffix -kin, chiefly surviving in
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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 "
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pumpkin," " firkin," seem to have no diminutive significance, and may have been assimilated from earlier forms, e.g .

End of Article: KIN (0. E. cyn, a word represented in nearly all Teutonic languages, cf. Du. kunne, Dan. and Swed. kon, Goth kuni, tribe; the Teutonic base is kunya; the equivalent Aryan root gan- to beget, produce, is seen in Gr. 'yEvos, Lat. genus, cf. "kind")
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