kin

 
Pronunciation: /kɪn/

noun

[treated as plural]
  • one’s family and relations: many elderly people have no kin to turn to for assistance
  • animals or plants that are related to a particular species or kind: dolphins, whales, and their kin the Acari include ticks, mites, and their kin

adjective

[predic.]
  • (of a person) related: he was kin to the brothers

Derivatives

kinless

adjective

Origin:

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'