PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No. Kin continues Germanic *kunja- from a *-yo- formation, while kind continues noun *kundjaz and adjective *kundiz from a *-t- formation. They are deep cousins that meet at *ǵenh₁-, not one modern word built by adding d to the other.
/kaɪnd/ · noun · adjective
An inherited English word whose noun history runs through nature, birth, class, and family while its adjective history runs through what is natural, native, fitting, and only later benevolent.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Separates Germanic *kunjam behind kin from *kundjaz and *kundiz behind kind.
genə-, separate zero-grade *gn̥ə-yo- and *gn̥ə-t- sectionsIndependently publishes the kin formation that must not be collapsed into kind.
Column 892: *kunja- and Old English cynnThe canonical graph joins the dossiers only at the shared birth root and never draws a kin-to-kind derivation.