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I have known the day when his kin were the mightiest kings of earth, and they fared through every land the noblest men of men-folk The taunting word, the jeering tones, made Siegfried's anger rise.

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  1. noun One's relatives; family; kinfolk.
  2. noun A kinsman or kinswoman.
  3. adjective Related; akin.

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  1. Middle English, from Old English cyn; see genə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English kin, kyn, ken, kun, from Anglo-Saxon cynn, cyn = Old Saxon kunni = OFries. ken, kin, kon, kin, kind, race, tribe, = Dutch kunne, sex, = Middle Low German kunne = Old High German cunni, chunni, Middle High German chunne, künne, kin, kind, race, = Icelandic kyn, kin, = Danish kjön = Swedish kön, sex, = Goth, kuni, kin: allied to kind, kind, kindle, ken, child, and ult. to the equivalent Irish Gaelic cine, race, family, = Latin genus = Greek γένος = Lithuanian gamas = Skt.janas, kind, race; all ult. from the √ *gen, Sanskritjan, beget: see genus, generate, etc., and kind, kind, ken, etc. Hence ult. kindred, king, etc.
  2. Partly from kin, n., partly by apheresis from akin.
  3. A dial. (unassibilated) variant of chine.
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