kinship

noun
/ˈkɪnʃɪp/US

Etymology

From kin + -ship.

  1. inherited from *kunją
  2. inherited from *kuni
  3. inherited from cynn
  4. inherited from kyn
  5. suffixed as kinship — “kin + ship

Definitions

  1. Relation or connection by blood, marriage or adoption.

  2. Relation or connection by nature or character.

    • The first of these were the ten engines of class "C8", Nos.290-299, which had a very strong kinship to the C.R. "Carbrooks".

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at kinship. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at kinship. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at kinship

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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