English

-kind

Used to form nouns denoting groups or classes taken collectively from animate nouns

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    Origin

    From Middle English -kinde, -kunde, -kuinde, alteration (due to the noun kind (“type, class”)) of -kin, -kun, -cun, from Old English cynn (“family, race”), see kin. Most uses appear to have been formed by analogy with mankind.

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    • inheritedMiddle English-kinde
      • inheritedOld Englishcynn “kind, sort, rank”
        • inheritedProto-West Germanic*kuni
          • inheritedProto-Germanic*kunją “clan, family, kin”

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