Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together. · A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen. · One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition. · Family, lineage.
From Middle English kynde, kinde, from Old English cynd, ġecynd (“inherent nature, disposition, kind, gender, generation, race”), from Proto-West Germanic *kundi, from Proto-Germanic *kinþiz, related to Proto-Germanic *kunją (“race, kin”) and Old English cennan (“to bear, give birth”). Cognate with Old High German gikunt (“nature, kind”), Icelandic kind (“race, species, kind”). Doublet of gens, genesis, and jati. See also kin.
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- Root classification mention*ǵenh₁-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionkyndeenm
- Inherited-form mentioncyndang
- Inherited-form mention*kundigmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*kinþizgem-pro
- Cognate mentioncennanang · to bear, give birth
- Cognate mentiongikuntgoh · nature, kind
- Cognate mentionkindis · race, species, kind
- Doublet mentiongensen
- Doublet mentiongenesisen
- Doublet mentionjatien
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