• n. 亲戚；家族；同族
• adj. 同类的；有亲属关系的；性质类似的
• n. (Kin)人名；(缅)庆；(朝)紧；(匈、柬、塞)金；(中)金(普通话·威妥玛)

来自古英语cynn,家族，民族，种族，来自Proto-Germanic*kunjam,家族，来自PIE*gene,生育，出生，词源同gene,generate.引申词义亲属，亲戚。

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.

我们已经通知了最近的亲属。

来自柯林斯例句

2. I'm her next of kin.

我是她的最近亲。

来自《权威词典》

3. He comes of good kin.

他出身好.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

4. What kin is he to you?

他和你是什么关系?

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

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

宁可让亲人责备, 切勿让敌人亲吻.

来自《简明英汉词典》