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