-kind

suffix

Etymology

From Middle English -kinde, -kunde, -kuinde, alteration (due to the noun kind (“type, class”)) of -kin, -kun, -cun, from Old English cynn (“family, race”), see kin. Most uses appear to have been formed by analogy with mankind.

inherited from cynn — “family, race”
inherited from -kinde

Definitions

Used to form nouns denoting groups or classes taken collectively from animate nouns

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -kind. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA