kinfolk

noun

Etymology

From kin + folk.

  1. inherited from *fulką
  2. inherited from *folk
  3. inherited from folc
  4. inherited from folk
  5. compounded as kinfolk — “kin + folk

Definitions

  1. Relatives, relations.

    • ‘You have kinfolks here though. Women. That used to live in this house.’
    • “Ah, woe is me! Alas, for my kingdom and my kinfolk!”
    • That says something about the nature of man—his fantasies of death that get enacted into the slaughter of man by man—kinfolk or strangers in droves—on every possible mindless occasion.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for kinfolk. 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