Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place. · A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. · The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings. · A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
Especially of hair or fur, to groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb. · To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. · To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb. · To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
From Middle English comb, from Old English camb (“comb”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamb, from Proto-Germanic *kambaz (“comb”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos (“tooth”), a doublet of cam. The verb is derived from the noun and displaced the older verb kemb. Cognates Compare Saterland Frisian Koum, Swedish/Dutch kam, Danish kam, Norwegian kam, German Kamm; also Tocharian B keme, Lithuanian žam̃bas (“sharp edge”), Old Church Slavonic зѫбъ (zǫbŭ), Albanian dhëmb, Ancient Greek γομφίος (gomphíos, “backtooth, molar”), Sanskrit जम्भ (jambha)).
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- Inherited-form mentioncombenm
- Inherited-form mentioncambang
- Inherited-form mention*kambgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*kambazgem-pro
- Inherited-form mention*ǵómbʰosine-pro
- Doublet mentioncamen
- Cognate mentionKoumstq
- Cognate mentionkamda
- Cognate mentionkamno
- Cognate mentionKammde
- Cognate mentionkemetxb
- Cognate mentionžam̃baslt
- Cognate mentionзѫбъcu
- Cognate mentiondhëmbsq
- Cognate mentionγομφίοςgrc
- Cognate mentionजम्भsa
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