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)
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