Akin

Prefix -("for, of") + kin

Full definition of akin

1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, ch. 23:We are too near akin to lie together, though we may lodge near one another.
1897, Joseph Conrad, The Nigger of the â€˜Narcissusâ€™, ch. 2:The faces changed, passing in rotation. Youthful faces, bearded faces, dark faces: faces serene, or faces moody, but all akin with the brotherhood of the sea.

(often followed by to) Allied by nature; similar; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.

1677, Theophilus Gale, The Court of the Gentiles, T. Cockeril, part 4, bk. 1, ch. 2, p. 27:Is not then Fruition near akin to Love?
1710, anon., "To the Spectator, &c.," The Spectator, vol. 1, no. 8 (March 9), p. 39:She told me that she hoped my Face was not akin to my Tongue.
1814, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, ch. 44:Such sensations, however, were too near akin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.
1837, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, ch. 39:Mr. Winkle . . . took his hand with a feeling of regard, akin to veneration.
1910, Zane Grey, "Old Well-Well," Success (July):Something akin to a smile shone on his face.

This adjective is always placed after the noun that it modifies.