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kyn.

sex

3 characters1 syllables approx.Íslenska language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈcʰɪːn]
  1. sex

    neuter
  2. breed, race

    neuter
  3. gender

    neuter
Where this word comes from

From Old Norse kyn, from Proto-Germanic *kunją, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to produce”). Cognate with Faroese kyn, Danish køn, Norwegian kjønn, Swedish kön, English kin, Dutch kunne, as well as, more distantly, Latin genus (“kind, gender”) (whence English gender).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.