kin
英[k?n]
美[k?n]
- 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)
助記提示
1. *gen-, *gon-, *gn- "produce, born" => eg: generate, genital, nature, gonorrhoea.
2. gen- => kin "family".
3. kin + -red "condition, rule" (同后綴的其他詞：hatred) => kindred.
4. With intrusive -d- probably for phonetic reasons (cf. thunder) but perhaps encouraged by kind.
5. 同源詞：kind, 還有許多其它的詞。
中文詞源
kin 親屬，親戚
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。
英文詞源
- 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).
雙語例句
- 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》