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▸ adjective:  Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (law) related on the mother's side.
▸ adjective:  Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root.
▸ adjective:  (linguistics) Descended from the same source lexemes (same etymons) of an ancestor language.
▸ noun:  One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
▸ noun:  (law, dated) One who is related to another on the female side.
▸ noun:  (law, dated) One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.
▸ noun:  (linguistics) A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or judged to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.





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