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OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.

SOURCE-REPORTED ATTESTATION

THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.

The dictionary record and edited quotation were inspected, not the underlying Junius 1 manuscript object. This verifies a located medieval use, not the earliest surviving token.

Middle Englishcirca 1175 quotation reported by the Middle English Dictionaryestablished

kin / kyn / kun

Ormulum kin quotation in the Middle English Dictionary

“Baþe wærenn off an kinn, Josæp & Sannte Marȝe”
WITNESS TYPE
Source-reported corpus record
YEAR
1175
LOCATOR
MED24246, sense 1a, Ormulum line 2069
REPOSITORY
Middle English Compendium · University of Michigan Library
SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
MED24246 · Ormulum (Jun 1) 2069
FACSIMILE
Not linked
DIRECT INSPECTION
No
CONFIDENCE
established
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE

THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM

TITLE
Kin n. — Middle English Dictionary
AUTHOR
Robert E. Lewis et al. · Frances McSparran et al.
YEAR
2001
PUBLISHER
University of Michigan Library
SOURCE TYPE
historical dictionary
CITATION KEY
med-kin