Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Akin

Akin ({not transcribed}) , adjective

[Prefix a- (for of) + kin.]

1.
Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; as, the two families are near akin.
2.
Allied by nature; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.
A joy akin to rapture. — Cowper
The literary character of the work is akin to its moral character. — Jeffrey

This adjective is used only after the noun.