Why Does Kinfolk Mean?

Your kinfolk are the people in your family. Even very distant cousins you've never met can be described as your kinfolk. When anthropologists use the term kinfolk, they mean people who are related by blood and share a common ancestor. ... Kinfolk combines the Old English roots cynn, or "family," and folc, "people."

Is kinfolk a Southern word?

plural noun Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. relatives or kindred. Also kin·folks, kins·folk [kinz-fohk] .

How do you use kinfolk?

Your kinfolk or kinsfolk are the people who are related to you. I sent my other son to the country to stay with kinfolk. Poor Emily. Her kinsfolk should come to her.