kyn

Abbreviation of English Karolanos with y as a placeholder.

kyn

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Karolanos.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Karolanos terms

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kyn

1. the back

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

From Old Norse kyn, from Proto-Germanic *kunją, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to produce”). Cognate with Icelandic kyn, Swedish kön, Danish køn, Norwegian kjønn, English kin, Dutch kunne.

• IPA^(key): [tʃʰiːn]

kyn n (genitive singular kyns, plural kyn)

1. lineage, family
2. gender, sex
3. nature
4. (grammar) gender

sexual orientation

• hinskynd (“heterosexuality”)
• samkynd (“homosexuality”)
• tvíkynd (“bisexuality”)

biological/grammatical gender

• kallkyn (“male sex or gender; masculine (gender)”)
• kvennkyn (“female sex or gender; feminine (gender)”)
• hvørkikyn (“neuter (gender)”)
• samkyn (“common (gender)”)

From Old Norse kyn, from Proto-Germanic *kunją, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to produce”). Cognate with Faroese kyn, Danish køn, Norwegian kjønn, Swedish kön, English kin, Dutch kunne, as well as, more distantly, Latin genus (“kind, gender”) (whence English gender).

• IPA^(key): /cʰɪːn/
• Rhymes: -ɪːn

kyn n (genitive singular kyns, nominative plural kyn)

1. sex
2. breed, race
3. (grammar) gender

• karlkyn
• kvenkyn
• hvorugkyn
• samkyn

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989), “kyn”, in Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)

From Old English cynn, from Proto-West Germanic *kuni, from Proto-Germanic *kunją.

• kin, kinn, kynn, kynne
• ken (Kent); cun, kun, kunne (Southern, Southwest Midland)

• IPA^(key): /kin/
• IPA^(key): /kɛn/ (especially Kent and East Saxon)
• IPA^(key): /kyn/ (especially Southern and Southwest Midland)

kyn (uncountable)

1. One's relations or kin:
   1. A family; the set of one's relations.
   2. A nation, tribe, or clan.
   3. One's descendants or offspring.
2. A family relationship; kinship:
   1. Ancestry; one's ancestors.
   2. (rare) A noble bloodline.
3. A kinsman or kinswoman; one of one's kin.
4. (Early Middle English) A class or group.
5. (Early Middle English) A method or means.
6. (rare) Sex, gender.

• kynrede
• mankyn

• English: kin
• Scots: kin

• “kin, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From the pleonastic addition of the plural suffix -en to ky, plural of cow (“cow”), perhaps due to the association of -en with monosyllabic words ending in open syllables such as cow; see schon (“shoes”) for discussion. Berndt instead suggests analogy with oxen, the plural of the semantically related oxe (“ox”).^[1]

• kien, kiin, kyen, kyne
• ken, keen, kein (East Saxon, Kent)
• cun, kuin, kun, kuyn (Southern, West Midland)

kyn

1. plural of cow

• English: kine
• Yola: keeine, keine, keyen, keene, khyne, kyne

kyn n (definite singular kynet, indefinite plural kyn, definite plural kyna or kyni)

1. (pre-1938) alternative form of kjønn

From Proto-Germanic *kunją. Cognate with English kin.

kyn n (genitive kyns, plural kyn)

1. kind, species, type, sort [1]
2. kindred, kin, family and friends

• kynviðr m (“scion”)

• Icelandic: kyn n
• Faroese: kyn n
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kyn n
• Old Swedish: kyn n
  • Swedish: kön n
• Old Danish: kyn
  • Danish: køn n
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kjønn n
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: kjønn n

• køn, kiøn

From Old Norse kyn, from Proto-Germanic *kunją.

kyn n

1. kin, family
2. sort, kind

• Swedish: kön n