Kin
Old English cynn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kunne, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘give birth to’, shared by Greek genos and Latin genus ‘race’.
wiktionary
From Middle English kin, kyn, ken, kun, from Old English cynn(“kind, sort, rank, quality, family, generation, offspring, pedigree, kin, race, people, gender, sex, propriety, etiquette”), from Proto-Germanic *kunją(“race, generation, descent”), from Proto-Indo-European*ǵn̥h₁yom, from *ǵenh₁-(“to produce”). Cognate with Scots kin(“relatives, kinfolk”), North Frisian kinn, kenn(“gender, race, family, kinship”), Dutch kunne(“gender, sex”), Middle Low German kunne(“gender, sex, race, family, lineage”), Danish køn(“gender, sex”), Swedish kön(“gender, sex”), Icelandic kyn(“gender”), and through Indo-European, with Latin genus(“kind, sort, ancestry, birth”), Ancient Greek γένος(génos, “kind, race”), Sanskrit जनस्(jánas, “kind, race”), Albanian dhen(“(herd of) small cattle”).
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etymonline
kin (n.)
c. 1200, from Old English cynn "family; race; kind, sort, rank; nature" (also "gender, sex," a sense obsolete since Middle English), from Proto-Germanic *kunja- "family" (source also of Old Frisian kenn, Old Saxon kunni "kin, kind, race, tribe," Old Norse kyn, Old High German chunni "kin, race;" Danish kjön, Swedish kön, Middle Dutch, Dutch kunne "sex, gender;" Gothic kuni "family, race," Old Norse kundr "son," German Kind "child"), from PIE root *gene- "give birth, beget," with derivatives referring to procreation and familial and tribal groups.
In the Teutonic word, as in Latin genus and Greek [genos], three main senses appear, (1) race or stock, (2) class or kind, (3) gender or sex .... [OED]
Related to both words kind and to child. From 1590s as an adjective, from the noun and as a shortening of akin. Legal next of kin (1540s) does not include the widow, "she being specifically provided for by the law as widow" [Century Dictionary], and must be a blood relation of the deceased.
