Kinning

name, verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of kin form-of, gerund, participle, present
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of Jinning (Taiwan) alt-of, alternative

    "The whole Kinmen island complex was divided into 7 operation areas, namely, Tatan, Erhtan, Small Kinmen, and Kinchen-Kinshan, Kinning, Kinhu and Kinsa on Kinmen."

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consanguineousrelative-cule-ee-el-et

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"The whole Kinmen island complex was divided into 7 operation areas, namely, Tatan, Erhtan, Small Kinmen, and Kinchen-Kinshan, Kinning, Kinhu and Kinsa on Kinmen."

Etymology

From the Nanking court dialect (later Postal Romanization) romanization of Mandarin 金寧 /金宁 (Jīnníng), from before the modern palatalization of /k/ to /tɕ/.

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