Kynde

Part of speech: noun, adjective

Definitions

1. A group of things sharing common features or nature ; the inherent character or temperament of a person or animal ; to bring forth offspring
2. A category or class of similar things ; the innate quality or manner that defines someone's personality ; to produce young or offspring
3. A sort or variety of things with shared qualities ; the essential nature or tendency of a being ; to bear or generate young animals

Etymology: "Kynde" is simply an older spelling of "kind," the form English used in the Middle English period. Its roots run back to Old English "cynd" and "ġecynd," which meant "inherent nature, disposition, kind, gender, generation, race." Those senses show how closely the word was tied to birth and belonging: a thing's "kind" was what it was born to be. That early sense of birth survives in the word's ancestry. The Old English forms relate to "cennan," meaning "to bear, give birth," and the same Proto-Germanic root gave rise to words for "race" and "kin." The word is therefore a close relative of "kin," and the two were once almost interchangeable in meaning. The word also has a striking doublet in English. Because it descends from the same ancient root as "gens," "genesis," and the Sanskrit "jati," it shares a distant family with some of the most learned words in the language, even though "kind" arrived through the everyday Germanic line rather than from Latin or Greek.