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kithfolk en · NOUN

Etymology

From kith + folk.

Meanings

  1. (plural, plural-only) those of a kith or clan
    • They seem instinctively to prefer their kith-folk of Russian Karelia. 1940, Eugenics Pamphlets, Issues 12-59, digital edition, Eugenics Society of Northern California, published 2008, page 46:
    • Maybe she, being smart as kithfolk usually were, could get a well-paid position in a guild or in the vicarial bureaucracy. 1999, Poul Anderson, Starfarers, →ISBN, page 81:
    • After that, he forced himself to think of the Wërgas kithfolk rather than beasts. 2015, Robert Stanek, Guardians & Dragons, →ISBN:
    • Those that were kith-folk (?) to the great devil, 1860, Philological Society (London), Transactions of the Philological Society, digitized edition, Wiley-Blackwell, published 2011, page 37:
    • In the beginning there was one adult male and one adult female, with no kinfolk or kithfolk, and no culture. 1974, Albert Silversteen, Human Communication: Theoretical Explorations, →ISBN, page 205: