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the people whose DNA you share and whose drama you didn't choose
means Your family — the people related to you by blood or marriage.
from From Old English 'cynn,' meaning family, race, or kind. It traces back to a Proto-Germanic root that also gave us 'kind' (as in 'a kind of thing') — both spring from an ancient sense of belonging to the same stock. The distant cousin in Latin is 'genus,' and in Greek 'genos,' all reaching back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'to give birth, to beget.' So 'kin,' 'kind,' 'genus,' and even 'genesis' are all branches of the same old family tree — fittingly, given the word's meaning.
- ancient root
- From Old English cynn, source of king and kind
- chosen too
- Anthropologists count adopted and ritual bonds as kin
- selfish gene
- Animals sacrifice for kin to save shared genes
- next of kin
- Legal term deciding who inherits and decides
- kith forgotten
- The lonely sibling phrase of kith and kin
haplo group k-m2 — genetic marker shared by ~9% of global male population, originated in southeast asia ~30,000 years ago
torres strait islanders — aboriginal people between australia and papua new guinea who recognize complex kinship systems with 4+ classification groups