Etymograph

English

kind

Kind comes from Old English cynd ‘inherent nature, disposition, kind, gender,…’, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis ‘birth, production’, and ultimately from *ǵenh₁-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵenh₁-‘to produce’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵénh₁tis‘birth’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*kinþiz‘kind’reconstructed
  4. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*kundireconstructed
  5. Old Englishc. 450–1150cynd‘inherent nature’
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500kynde
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1533kind

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵenh₁-‘to produce’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵénh₁tis‘birth’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*kinþiz‘kind’reconstructed
  4. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*kundireconstructed
  5. Old Englishc. 450–1150cynd‘inherent nature’
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500kynde
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1533kind

Earliest quotation: 1533, Thomas More: “Must yt nedes folowe that theyr fayth was chaunged…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- ‘to produce’

general, nature, german, generation, native, pregnant, engine, king, gene, genius, gender, oxygen, ken, genre, genuine, hydrogen, genocide, nationalism, indigenous, naive, genus, noel, genital, natal, nee, germ, innate, nativity, nada, ingenious, nascent, naïve, janata, puny, glycogen, genial, kin, cognate, genitive, gingerly, 106 more

through Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis ‘birth, production’

nation, gentle, genesis, genetics, gentile, gens, genteel, jaunty, nomen, 14 more

Another origin of kind

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵenh₁-‘to produce’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵénh₁tis‘birth, production’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*kinþiz‘kind, race’reconstructed
  4. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*kundireconstructed
  5. Old Englishc. 450–1150cynd‘nature, kind’
  6. Old English, derivedc. 450–1150cynde‘innate, natural, native’
  7. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500kynde‘Innate, intrinsic, intuitive’
  8. Englishtodaykind

Today it means

noun A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- / kind

Shirt and support for this word