Etymology

-kind

Today it means: Used to form nouns denoting groups or classes taken collectively from animate nouns Full definition →

Middle English -kinde ← Old English cynn
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromcynn“family, race”
  2. Middle English · inherited from-kinde
  3. English today-kind

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.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishcynn all →

kin

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