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PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 656

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 04broadNO SINGLE PIN

kin, kyn, kinne, cunne, and related forms

Middle English records

kin DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

A large spelling inventory preserves family, people, ancestry, relative, kind, and category senses while the modern form emerges.

COORDINATES STORED
NO
HONEST TO PLOT
NO
PLACEMENT MODE
broad
TIME PRECISION
range
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
YES
CLAIM CITATIONS
2
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

THIS STAGE ENTERS THE TIMELINE.

The Middle English Dictionary supplies forms and dated quotations but not one simultaneous change across every dialect.

PLACE IN GLOBAL CHRONOLOGY ↗
DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE

AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.

Every source below identifies its exact stance, locator, and evidentiary contribution.

  1. context

    Kin — definition, etymology, and first known use

    Places modern kin after Middle English and reports the before-twelfth-century horizon.

    Kin etymology and first-known-use sectionAUDIT SOURCE ↗
  2. supports

    Kin n. — Middle English Dictionary

    Publishes the medieval forms, direct Old English ancestry, senses, and located quotations.

    MED24246, Forms, Etymology, and dated quotationsAUDIT SOURCE ↗