alkin

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English alkin, alkinnes (“of all kinds”) [and other forms], from Old English ealle cynn (“of all kinds”) [and other forms], from eall (“all”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“all; beyond; other”)) + cynn (“kind; family”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to beget, give birth; to produce”)). The English word is analysable as all +‎ kin (“(obsolete) class (of animals, persons, or things) having common attributes, kind”). Compare Swedish allsköns, Danish alskens. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɔːlkɪn/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɔlkɪn/, /ˈɑl-/ (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈɔlkɪn/ Hyphenation: al‧kin === Adjective === alkin (not comparable) (obsolete except Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) Of all or every kind; all kinds or sorts of; intermingled and various. alkin crafty men ― craftsmen of every kind ==== Alternative forms ==== alkyn, allkins, allkyn alkine, alkyne, allkin, aw kin (Scotland) === References === === Further reading === “alkin, a.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC. Joseph Wright, editor (1898), “ALKIN, phr. used attrib.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume I (A–C), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 38, column 1. === Anagrams === Kalin, Lakin, lakin == Polish == === Etymology === Internationalism; compare English alkyne. First attested in 1910. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈal.kin/ Rhymes: -alkin Syllabification: al‧kin === Noun === alkin m inan (organic chemistry) alkyne ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== See also ==== alkan, alken === References === === Further reading === alkin in Polish dictionaries at PWN