Etymograph

English

kinkeeper

From kin + keeper.

Formed from kin + keeper

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

Middle English kepere

English keeper

Today it means

noun Someone doing kinkeeping.

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

Etymograph / kinkeeper