Etymograph

English

kindom

From kin (“relatives”) + -dom as a more egalitarian or gender-neutral alternative to kingdom.

Formed from kin ‘relatives’ + -dom

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

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Proto-Germanic *kunją ‘race, generation, descent’

Proto-West Germanic *kuni ‘family, kin’

Old English cynn ‘kind, sort, rank’

Middle English kyn ‘a family’

English kin

Today it means

noun A divinely-instituted egalitarian community.

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

Etymograph / kindom