Lake/Wren: the oppositions

[Ya Sam]

I am printing out from my Webster's Int. Dictionary (quite reliable):

kindred [ME kinrede, kindrede, fr. kin+ -rede (fr. OE raeden condition, 
rule, estimation, fr. raedan to advise, rule, guess, read)...]

now, kin [ME, fr. OE cyn; akin to OHG kind child, chunni family, race 
gignere to beget, GK genea birth, race, family...]





>Actually, I think the word "kindred" doesn't originally mean related
>by blood (OED anyone?).  I think its root is "kind" as in similar type
>or qualities.  But that's just a minor quibble.  It does mean "family"
>(if not by blood).
>
>David Morris

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