kynrede

• kenreede, kinderede, kinrede, kunred, kyndrede, kynnerede, kynred, kynreden, kynreede, kynrod, kynryde
• cunredden, cunreden, kinraden, kinreden, kunreden (Early Middle English)
• kynrend, kynrent, kynrente (Early Scots); kenred, kenrede (chiefly East Saxon, Kent); kynderyng, kinredd, kynredyn, kynredynge (Northern); kinradin, kynraden (Northwest Midland); kunrade, kunrede, kynrade (Southern, West Midland)

From Old English cynrēde; equivalent to kyn (“kin”) +‎ -rede. Forms in kind-, kynd- either represent a development of epenthetic /d/ as in thonder, gandre or association with kynde (“nature, family”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkin(d)rɛ̝ːd(ə)/, /ˈkin(d)rɛ̝ːdən/, /-rɛd-/

kynrede (plural kynredes)

1. A family relationship; kinship:
   1. Ancestry; one's ancestors.
   2. The state of having a noble bloodline.
2. One's relations; family, lineage.
   • 1387, Chaucer, “v. 2563”, in The Tale of Melibee‎^[1]:

     but thyne enemys been thre, and they han manie children, bretheren, cosyns, and oother ny kynrede...

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. One's descendants or offspring.
4. A sodality or fraternity.
5. A nation or people.

• English: kindred
  • → Middle Scots: kinred, kynrede, kynreid
    • Scots: kindred
• Middle Scots: kinrent, kynrent

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