PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No. The inherited noun names kinship, family, lineage, and related people. Merriam-Webster analyzes the adjective as attributive use of that noun and reports it later than the noun.
/ˈkɪndrɪd/ · noun · adjective
An inherited English kinship word built from Old English cynn “kin” plus -ræden “condition or state,” with an intrusive d and a fossilized second element whose wider word-forming pattern disappeared.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Treats the adjective as attributive use of the noun and reports the later horizon.
Adjective etymology and distinct first-known-use sectionsDocuments the current semantic split.
Noun and adjective sense sectionsThe similarity sense is recorded as semantic development on the whole-word continuation edge.