Etymology

fictionkin

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Today it means: An individual whose personal identity is based in fiction of some kind: a fictional character, a fictional race or species, etc. Full definition →

Old English cynna ← Proto-West Germanic *kuni ← Proto-Germanic *kunją
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeyǵʰ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰinéǵʰti
  3. Proto-Italic*θingō
  4. Proto-Italic*fingō
  5. Latinfingō
  6. Latinfictiō
  7. Old Frenchficcion
  8. Middle Englishficcioun
  9. Englishfiction
  10. Proto-Indo-European*ǵenh₁-
  11. Proto-Germanic*kunją
  12. Proto-West Germanic*kuni
  13. Old Englishcynna
  14. English todayfictionkin

From fiction + -kin.

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