kindred
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
kindred /ˈkɪndrɪd/
▶noun
- 1 [treated as pl.] one's family and relations.
- 2 relationship by blood.
– origin ME: from kin + -red (from OE rǣden ‘condition’), with insertion of -d- in the modern spelling through phonetic development (as in thunder).
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