1. 1親屬、親人

    Kinsfolk are your family — the people you are related to, not friends you only feel close to. It is a group word: it points to the relatives as a set. You will meet it in older writing, in stories, and in rather formal or folk-sounding speech; most people now just say family or relatives. Though actually, kinsfolk can feel a little wider than the people in your house. It can take in aunts, cousins, and the larger kin-group, the folk who share your blood. You do not usually count it. Careful writing says 'my kinsfolk', not 'three kinsfolks', though you will hear the extra s.

core核心畫面

組成kin + -s- + folk. The -s- is a joining sound, as in kinsman. From Middle English kynsefolke, after kynnesman (today's kinsman).

同家族的字

  • kinthe root: family, your people
  • folkthe second half: people
  • kinsmanbuilt the same way: a male relative
  • kinswomanbuilt the same way: a female relative

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

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