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alkin

adj
/ˈɔːlkɪn/UK/ˈɔlkɪn/US/ˈɔlkɪn/

Etymology

From Middle English alkin, alkinnes (“of all kinds”) [and other forms], from Old English ealle cynn (“of all kinds”) [and other forms], from eall (“all”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“all; beyond; other”)) + cynn (“kind; family”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to beget, give birth; to produce”)). The English word is analysable as all + kin (“(obsolete) class (of animals, persons, or things) having common attributes, kind”). Compare Swedish allsköns, Danish alskens.

  1. inherited from *ǵenh₁-✻ — “to beget, give birth; to produce”
  2. inherited from *h₂el-✻ — “all; beyond; other”
  3. inherited from ealle cynn — “of all kinds”
  4. inherited from alkin

Definitions

  1. Of all or every kind

    Of all or every kind; all kinds or sorts of; intermingled and various.

    • alkin crafty men
    • I saw ane plane of peirles pulchritude, / Quhairin aboundit alkin things gude / Spyce, wine, corne, oyle, tre, frute, flour, herbis grene, / All foullis, beistis, birdis, and alkin fude.

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