English

kinslayer

From kin + slayer.

A compound of kin + slayer

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

Proto-West Germanic *slagō

Old English slaga

Middle English slear

Today it means

noun One who slays his or her own kin; a parricide.

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

Etymograph / kinslayer