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historical dictionarymed-kinde-adjective
Kīnd(e adj. — Middle English Dictionary
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Robert E. Lewis et al. · Frances McSparran et al.
- YEAR
- 2001
- PUBLISHER
- University of Michigan Library
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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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
MED24249, especially sense 5 and dated quotationsDocuments the later affectionate, loving, and benevolent semantic development.
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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.
MED24249, especially senses 1–5 and dated quotationsDocuments the medieval natural, fitting, affectionate, loving, and benevolent range.
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EDGE 1067supportsestablished
kind → kīnd(e)
Present-Day English → Middle English · historical continuation
- SOUND
- Middle English kīnd(e) loses the final unstressed vowel and participates in the later vowel history that yields modern /aɪ/; no single spelling is made the donor for every dialect.
- MEANING
- Natural, innate, fitting, proper, native, affectionate, and benevolent uses reorganize around the modern fitting and benevolent adjective.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · Middle English Dictionary Editors
MED24249, Forms and senses 1–5Publishes the medieval adjective spellings and natural, fitting, affectionate, and benevolent senses.
EDGE 1068supportsestablished
kīnd(e) → gecynde
Middle English → Old English · inheritance
- SOUND
- 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
MED24249, Etymology: compare OE gecynde, and senses 1–5Aligns the medieval adjective with Old English and publishes its expanded sense inventory.
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Middle English records
Publishes the medieval adjective inventory, including natural, fitting, affectionate, and benevolent uses.
MED24249, adjective forms, senses, and dated quotations · broad070
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