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Ge-cynde — Bosworth–Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

AUTHOR / EDITOR
Joseph Bosworth · T. Northcote Toller · online editors
YEAR
1898
PUBLISHER
Bosworth–Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online
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SOURCE TYPE
historical dictionary
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Kind is not kin with a d—and kindness did not begin as niceness.

Kind and kin descend through separate Germanic formations and meet only at the deeper birth root. The adjective first carries natural, native, fitting, and proper senses; benevolence becomes prominent through later semantic development.

*ǵenh₁-

*ǵenh₁- → *gn̥ə-t- → *kundjaz → cynd / gecynd → kīnde → kind

Headword GE-CYNDE, senses I–III

Documents the older natural, native, fitting, proper, and inherited adjective field.

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Did kind always mean benevolent or nice?

No. Old English gecynde is natural, native, innate, fitting, proper, or inherited by birth. Middle English evidence adds affectionate and benevolent uses, making modern moral kindness a semantic development rather than the original whole meaning.

Headword GE-CYNDE, senses I–III

Documents natural, native, innate, proper, and birthright meanings without a primary benevolent gloss.

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kīnd(e) → gecynde

Middle English → Old English · inheritance

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Middle English kīnd(e), kende, kunde, and related adjective spellings continue Old English gecynde with loss or reduction of inherited morphology and dialectal vowel variation.
MEANING
Old English natural, native, innate, proper, fitting, and inherited senses continue; affectionate, loving, and benevolent uses become visible in the medieval record.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR
Middle English Dictionary Editors · Bosworth–Toller Editors
Headword GE-CYNDE, forms and senses I–III

Publishes the Old English adjective and natural, native, innate, proper, fitting, and inherited meanings.

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gecynde → *kundiz

Old English → Proto-Germanic · inheritance

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Proto-Germanic *kundiz develops into Old English gecynde through West Germanic history, including fronting conditioned by the following high segment and loss or reshaping of inherited endings; ge- is not treated as part of the reconstructed stem.
MEANING
The reconstructed natural or native adjective continues as Old English natural, innate, native, fitting, proper, and birthright senses.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR
Calvert Watkins and American Heritage Dictionary Editors · Bosworth–Toller Editors
Headword GE-CYNDE, forms and semantic inventory

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