Kind

From Middle High German kint, from Old High German kind, from Proto-West Germanic *kind. Cognates include German Kind and Luxembourgish Kand.

• (Vienna) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰint/
• Hyphenation: Kind

Kind n (plural Kinder)

1. (Vienna) child
   • 1938, Josef Weinheber, Wien wörtlich, Impression im März:

     Wårme Sunn, dås erste Pråterveigerl:
     Ållweil wieder gfreust di wiara Kind.

     Warm sun, the first violet:
     You always rejoice like a child again.

   • 2015, “Wien wort auf di [Vienna waits for you]”, performed by Granada:

     Kumm ober, du eifrig's Kind.

     Come on, you eager child.

• Maria Hornung, Sigmar Grüner (2002) “Khind”, in Wörterbuch der Wiener Mundart, 2nd edition, ÖBV & HPT
• Petr Šubrt (2010) Wiener dialekt (master thesis), Masaryk University, page 48

 

• Kindt (obsolete)

From Middle High German kint, from Old High German kind, from Proto-West Germanic *kind, from Proto-Germanic *kindą, *kinþą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to give birth”).

• IPA^(key): /kɪnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪnt

Kind n (strong, genitive Kindes or Kinds, plural Kinder, diminutive Kindchen n or Kindlein n or Kindelein n)

1. kid; child (young person)
   • 1961 [1857], Karl Marx, “Einleitung”, in Zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie (Marx-Engels-Werke), volume 13, pages 641-642; translated as “Introduction”, in Ernst Wangermann, transl., A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (Marx/Engels Collected Works), volume 28, 1986, pages 47-48:

     Ein Mann kann nicht wieder zum Kinde werden oder er wird kindisch. Aber freut ihn die Naivetät des Kindes nicht, und muß er nicht selbst wieder auf einer höhren Stufe streben, seine [des Kindes] Wahrheit zu reproduzieren?

     An adult cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish. But does not the naïveté of the child give him pleasure, and must he not himself endeavour to reproduce the child’s veracity on a higher level?

2. child; offspring (person with regard to his or her parents; also a baby animal or young animal, especially as the second component in numerous compound nouns)

   Hyponym: Kleinkind

   Er war das zweitgeborene Kind in der Familie. ― He was the second-born child in the family.

   Er ist das Kind zweier blinder Eltern. ― He is the child of two blind parents.

• The normal plural is Kinder. The double plural Kinders (also Kinners) is colloquial and chiefly restricted to Low German areas (northern Germany). It is most often heard as a vocative, either referring to an actual group of children or figuratively: Kinders, wie die Zeit vergeht! − “Boy, how time flies!”
• Dialectal diminutives include Kindel, Kindele, Kindl, Kindle and Kindli.
• In German law Kind is usually defined as a person under 14 years of age,^[1] while in non-German law Kind can mean a person under 18 years of age.^[2] See also Jugendlicher (person under 18 years but at least 14 years old) and Minderjähriger (person under 18 years of age).

• “Kind” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Kind” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Kind” in Duden online
• “Kind” in OpenThesaurus.de
•   Kind on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Kind”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

From Middle Low German kint, from Old Saxon kind, from Proto-West Germanic *kind, from Proto-Germanic *kindą, *kinþą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to give birth”).

• IPA^(key): /kɪnt/, [kʰɪ̃ˑntʰ], [kɪ̃ːnt]

Kind n (plural Kinner or Kinder)

1. (human) child
2. offspring (person, with regard to position in a family)

• Öllern (Vader m, Moder f)

Kind n (plural Kinga or Kinger)

1. (Low Prussian) (human) child
2. (Low Prussian) offspring (person, with regard to position in a family)

Kind n (dative Kinne, plural Kinner, vocative Kinners)

1. (Paderbornisch) (human) child

• Kinner (plural); Kinnken (Ravensbergisch)

From Middle High German kind, from Old High German kind, from Proto-West Germanic *kind, from Proto-Germanic *kindą, *kinþą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to give birth”).

• IPA^(key): /kʰint/

Kind n (plural Kinner)

1. kid; child

   Die Kinner kenne net schlofe. ― The children can't sleep.

   Die Kinner gehn in die Schul. ― The kids go to the school.

   Sie baad eere Kind. ― She bathes her child.

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

From Middle High German kint, from Old High German kind, from Proto-West Germanic *kind (“child”). Cognate with Dutch kind, Latin gēns and genus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɪnt/

Kind n (plural Kinner)

1. child, kid