Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Of a person's beard or hair: combed. · Of wool or other fibres: combed. · Neat and tidy.
Partly from both of the following: * An adjective use of kempt, the past participle of kemb (“(obsolete except UK, dialectal) to comb”), from Middle English kemben (“to comb (oneself or someone, or something); to card (wool, etc.); to make (something) elegant or smooth; (figurative) to make (something) gentle”) (compare the past participle forms kempde, kempte), from Old English cemban (“to comb”) from Proto-West Germanic *kambijan (“to comb, kemb”), from Proto-Germanic *kambijaną (“to comb, kemb”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos (“tooth; row of teeth”), from *ǵembʰ- (“to bite, chomp; to crunch”). * A back-formation from unkempt.
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*ǵembʰ-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionkembenenm · to comb (oneself or someone, or something); to card (wool, etc.); to make (something) elegant or smooth; (figurative) to make (something) gentle
- Inherited-form mentioncembanang · to comb
- Inherited-form mention*kambijangmw-pro · to comb, kemb
- Inherited-form mention*kambijanągem-pro · to comb, kemb
- Inherited-form mention*ǵómbʰosine-pro · tooth; row of teeth
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