kin

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

▶noun [treated as pl.] one's family and relations. ▶adjective (often kin to) (of a person) related.

– derivatives
kinless adjective.

– origin OE cynn, of Gmc origin.

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.