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kith

  [kith]
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–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:
bef. 900; ME; OE cȳth, earlier cȳththu kinship, knowledge, equiv. to cūth couth 2 + -thu -th 1 ; akin to Goth kunthi, G Kunde knowledge
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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 (1377) originally meant "country and kinsmen."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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