• n. 親戚；家族；同族
• adj. 同類的；有親屬關系的；性質類似的
• n. (Kin)人名；(緬)慶；(朝)緊；(匈、柬、塞)金；(中)金(普通話·威妥瑪)

來自古英語cynn,家族，民族，種族，來自Proto-Germanic*kunjam,家族，來自PIE*gene,生育，出生，詞源同gene,generate.引申詞義親屬，親戚。

kin

kin: [OE] Kin is the central English member of the Germanic branch of a vast family of words that trace their ancestry back to the prehistoric Indo- European base *gen-, *gon-, *gn-, denoting ‘produce’ (the Latin branch has given English gender, general, generate, genital, nature, etc, the Greek branch gene, genetic, gonorrhoea, etc).

Amongst the Germanic descendants of this base was *kun-, from which was derived the noun *kunjam, source of Swedish k?n ‘sex’ and English kin ‘family’. Kindred [12] was formed from kin in early Middle English by adding the suffix -red ‘condition’ (as in hatred). Also closely related are kind and king.
=> gender, gene, general, generate, genital, kind, kindred, king, nature

kin (n.)

c. 1200, from Old English cynn "family; race; kind, sort, rank; nature; gender, sex," from Proto-Germanic *kunjam "family" (cognates: Old Frisian kenn, Old Saxon kunni, Old Norse kyn, Old High German chunni "kin, race;" Danish and Swedish k?n, Middle Dutch, Dutch kunne "sex, gender;" Gothic kuni "family, race," Old Norse kundr "son," German Kind "child"), from PIE *gene- "to produce" (see genus).

1. We have notified the next of kin.

我們已經通知了最近的親屬。

來自柯林斯例句

2. I'm her next of kin.

我是她的最近親。

來自《權威詞典》

3. He comes of good kin.

他出身好.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》

4. What kin is he to you?

他和你是什么關系?

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》

5. Better be blamed by our kith and kin, than be kissed by the enemy.

寧可讓親人責備, 切勿讓敵人親吻.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》