Archaic cows; cattle
Origin of kine
Middle English kin, double plural of cou ( from Old English cy, plural of cu, cow) + (-e)nkine
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kine
noun
ArchaicA plural of cow1
Origin of kine
Middle English kyn from Old English céna genitive pl. of cū cow ; see cow 1.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
- (archaic or dialectal) plural form of cow
Origin
From Middle English kyn, kuin, kiin, kien, variant (double plural) of Middle English ky, kye (“cows”), equivalent to ky, kye + -en. Alternative etymology derives Middle English kyn from Old English cȳna (“cows', of cows”), genitive plural of cū (“cow”). More at cow.
Origin
From Middle English kyne-, from Old English cyne- (“royal, kingly”), from Proto-Germanic *kuni-, *kuniz (“offspring, generation, race”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵene-, *ǵnē- (“to give birth, be born”). More at kin, kind.
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