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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-kin/kɪn/

▶suffix forming diminutive nouns such as catkin.

– origin from MDu. -kijn, -ken, Mid. Low Ger. -kīn.

'-kin' also found in these Oxford entries:

akin - griskin - kin - kind - kindred - king - -kins - kin selection - kith - larrikin - limpkin - minikin - napkin - next of kin - pannikin - spillikin

Forum discussions with the word(s) "-kin" in the title:

Ancestral kin
deposited by her late father <who /of whom/ of which> she is only next of kin
There was no guessing his kith and kin
there will be no next of Kin [Microsoft cell phone]
What kin is he to you?

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