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Where does “kinship” come from?

Kinship derives from Middle English -schipe, Old English cynn meaning "family or relatives," Proto-Germanic kunją, and Proto-Indo-European ǵenh₁- meaning "to beget or produce."

kinship (English): relation or connection by blood, marriage or...

Definitions

  1. relation or connection by blood, marriage or...

Ancestry of “kinship”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishkinRace; family; breed; kind; Persons of the same...
2Englishfictionkin—
3EnglishfictionLiterary type using invented or imaginative...
4Middle Englishficcioun—
5Old Frenchficciondissimulation, ruse, invention
6Latinfictiofashioning, forming, formation; fiction
7Latin-tiō—
8Latindissertātiō—
9Latindissertusarranged, disposed; explained
10Latindissereresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
11Latindis-asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;...
12Latincalceusshoe
13Latincalxlimestone; chalk; the finish line
14Ancient Greekχάλιξsmall stone, pebble; gravel, rubble

Words derived from “kinship”

  • nonkinship
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