2020-10-27
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด K - Kith and kin
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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง Kith = ‘KITH’
ออกเสียง Kin = ‘KIN’
Dictionary.com
The Evolution of Kith
Kith has had many meanings over the years.
In its earliest uses it referred to knowledge of something,
but that meaning died out in the 1400s. Another sense, "one's native land," had come and gone by the early 1500s. The sense "friends, fellow countrymen, or neighbors" developed before the 12th century and was sometimes used as a synonym of kinsfolk. That last sense got kith into hot water after people began using the word in the alliterative phrase "kith and kin." Over the years, usage commentators have complainedthat kith means the same thing as kin, so "kith and kin" is redundant. Clearly, they have overlookedsome other historical definitions, but if you want to avoid redundancy charges, be sure to include friends as well as relatives among your "kith and kin."
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression
Kith and kin
This is a tiresomely overworked phrase meaning “acquaintance and relatives.”
Kith andkin are not synonymous:
Kith means “friends, neighbors, and the like”;
Kin means people actually related through family ties, persons descended from a common ancestor.
When properly used, both kin and Kith are plural, so that one relative cannot be called kin and is not kith at all.
