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The word kin means family, race, class, or kind. It comes from Old English cynn.

As a suffix, -ship also derives from Old English and denotes the state or condition of being what is expressed by the word to which it is added. Thus , friendship is the stand of being friends, and kinship is the state of being kin, of being related as a family or race, etc.

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