Noun: kynde
| Sg. | kynde |
| Pl. | kyndes; kuynden |
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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And whan he cam ageyne he sayd / O my whyte herte / me repenteth that thow art dede /[…]/ and thy deth shalle be dere bought and I lyue / and anone he wente in to his chamber and armed hym / and came oute fyersly / & there mette he with syr gauayne / why haue ye slayne my houndes said syr gauayn / for they dyd but their kynde [1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “vij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book III:]
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Nu broþerr Ƿallꞇ͛. broþerͬ min. Affꞇ͛ þe flæsheſſ kĩde⹎ ⁊ broþerͬ mın ı crıſſtenndom. Þurrh fulluhht⹎ ⁊ þurrh troꟕþe⹎ ⁊ broþerr mın ı ꟑodeſſ huſ […] (Now, Brother Walter, my brother by blood relation and in Christendom, through baptism and faith, and my brother in God's house […]) [c. 1180, Orͬm, “[Dedication]”, in Orͬmulum (Bodleian MS. Junius 1), Bourne Abbey, Lincolnshire, folio 3, recto; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 10 January 2019:]
Nouns inflected like kynde
kynde,
Etymology
From the oblique cases of Old English cynd, ġecynd, from Proto-West Germanic *kundi, from *kund-, oblique stem of Proto-Germanic *kinþiz, from *ǵn̥h₁-t-, oblique stem of Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis. Compare kyn. See: Old English Nouns '
cynd'.
Verbs referencing "kynde"
English Nouns
kind.
Translations