kin

Converse of object

• have: A man who had kin in a village in which there was a specialty would profit by such ties in trading.

Adjective modifier

• distant: Distant kin In 1997, DNA was successfully sequenced - to everyone's surprise - from the original Neanderthal specimen.
• close: The students spent a full twelve hours in the fields, working in turn on the plots of several families of close kin.
• near: Beyond prohibitions pertaining to near kin, the choice of marriage partners was open to kin and non-kin alike.
• own: In some villages women were raped by gangs of youths and a growing number were murdered, often by their own kin.
• other: If other kin live nearby they also will be visited.

Modifies a noun

• ty: The personal kin ties of men through men form the core of the lineage groups.
• selection: This criticism can only be made by someone who does not understand what kin selection means.
• relation: Indeed, it would seem that for Dr. Nazeer kin relations are relegated to second place - at least in a professional context.
• theory: Hamilton proposed the inclusive fitness or kin selection theory to explain altruism or self-sacrifice.
• relationship: What gives them order is kin relationships between them.
• network: The nature and scope of changes in the Pennsylvania German of two multi-generational kin networks: the noun phrase.

Modifying Another Word

• close: However, this wasn't merely some Gunsmoke rip-off, anymore than Man From Uncle was close kin to Dragnet.

Noun used with modifier

• neist: Are ye shair Ah'm the neist o kin?
• o: Are ye shair Ah'm the neist o kin?
• blood: The scent of family; his blood kin, literally.
• ye: The best thing ye kin do is to go back, and when ye git into town ask a policeman.
• ah: Talk ' bout yer brimstone, ah kin smell it from here!

Possessives

• o: So ah thought ah'd chist pop ma heid in eh door an ' kin ' o ' mak ma presence known.

Possessives

• mother: The lands were then granted to one of the legitimate heirs who had been brought up by his mother's kin, the Frasers.