Etymograph

English

kissing kin

From kissing + kin.

A compound of kissing + kin

Proto-Germanic *kussijandz

Proto-West Germanic *kussijandī

Old English cyssende

Middle English kissynge ‘kiss’

English kissing

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 Kissing cousins.

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

Etymograph / kissing kin