"kyn" meaning in Faroese

See kyn in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [tʃʰiːn]
Etymology: From Old Norse kyn, from Proto-Germanic *kunją, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to produce”). Cognate with Icelandic kyn, Swedish kön, Danish køn, Norwegian kjønn, English kin, Dutch kunne. Etymology templates: {{root|fo|ine-pro|*ǵenh₁-}}, {{der|fo|non|kyn}} Old Norse kyn, {{der|fo|gem-pro|*kunją}} Proto-Germanic *kunją, {{der|fo|ine-pro|*ǵenh₁-||to produce}} Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to produce”), {{cog|is|kyn}} Icelandic kyn, {{cog|sv|kön}} Swedish kön, {{cog|da|køn}} Danish køn, {{m|nb|kjønn}} kjønn, {{m|en|kin}} kin, {{m|nl|kunne}} kunne Head templates: {{head|fo|noun|g=n|head=}} kyn n, {{fo-noun|n|kyns|kyn}} kyn n (genitive singular kyns, plural kyn) Inflection templates: {{fo-decl-noun-n22|kyn}} Forms: kyns [genitive, singular], kyn [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], kyn [indefinite, nominative, singular], kynið [definite, nominative, singular], kyn [indefinite, nominative, plural], kynini [definite, nominative, plural], kyn [accusative, indefinite, singular], kynið [accusative, definite, singular], kyn [accusative, indefinite, plural], kynini [accusative, definite, plural], kyni [dative, indefinite, singular], kyninum [dative, definite, singular], kynjum [dative, indefinite, plural], kynum [dative, indefinite, plural], kynjunum [dative, definite, plural], kynunum [dative, definite, plural], kyns [genitive, indefinite, singular], kynsins [definite, genitive, singular], kynja [genitive, indefinite, plural], kynjanna [definite, genitive, plural]
  1. lineage, family Tags: neuter
    Sense id: en-kyn-fo-noun-oEOVZthW
  2. gender, sex Tags: neuter
    Sense id: en-kyn-fo-noun-Vpuibx3o
  3. nature Tags: neuter
    Sense id: en-kyn-fo-noun-Vperynox
  4. (grammar) gender Tags: neuter Categories (topical): Grammar
    Sense id: en-kyn-fo-noun-3p~q6otm Categories (other): Faroese entries with incorrect language header, Faroese entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of Faroese entries with incorrect language header: 16 3 3 77 Disambiguation of Faroese entries with topic categories using raw markup: 11 2 2 84 Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (topical): Biology Derived forms: hinskynd (english: heterosexuality), samkynd (english: homosexuality), tvíkynd (english: bisexuality), kallkyn (english: male sex or gender; masculine (gender)), kvennkyn (english: female sex or gender; feminine (gender)), hvørkikyn (english: neuter (gender)), samkyn (english: common (gender))
Disambiguation of Biology: 0 0 0 0

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    },
    {
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      "english": "bisexuality",
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    },
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    {
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    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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      "ipa": "[tʃʰiːn]"
    }
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}
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      "english": "bisexuality",
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    },
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    }
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  "word": "kyn"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Faroese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.