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Are the family noun kin and diminutive suffix -kin the same morpheme?

No. Merriam-Webster gives the family noun through Middle English from Old English cynn, but derives the diminutive suffix through Middle English from Middle Dutch -kin and Old High German -chīn.

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kin

/kɪn/ · noun · adjective

The inherited English family word continuing Middle English kin and Old English cynn, from the Germanic lineage formation *kunja- and ultimately the birth-and-generation root *ǵenh₁-.

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CONFIDENCE
established
STATUS
resolved
LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
Merriam-Webster prints the noun and suffix as separate entries with separate etymologies.
RESOLUTION NOTE

The suffix is not attached to this family graph and the dossier labels the homography explicitly.

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