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kith

   [kith]
noun
1.
acquaintances, friends, neighbors, or the like; persons living in the same general locality and forming a more or less cohesive group.
2.
kindred.
3.
a group of people living in the same area and forming a culture with a common language, customs, economy, etc., usually endogamous.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English cȳth, earlier cȳththu kinship, knowledge, equivalent to cūth couth2 + -thu -th1; akin to Gothic kunthi, German Kunde knowledge

Can be confused: ken, kin, kith.
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kith (kɪθ)
 
—n
one's friends and acquaintances (esp in the phrase kith and kin)
 
[Old English cӯthth, from cūth; see uncouth]

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kith
O.E. cyðð "native country, home," from cuð "known," pp. of cunnan "to know" (see can (v.)). The alliterative phrase kith and kin (late 14c.) originally meant "country and kinsmen."
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