kæmme

Danish

/ˈkɛmə/

verb

Definitions

to comb with a comb or a fine-tooth comb
(by extension) to investigate exhaustively and meticulously to find all instances of something (as though delousing)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse kemba inherited from Proto-Germanic *kambijaną (comb).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*kambijaną

Gloss

comb

Concept

Semantic Field

Clothing and grooming

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Emoji

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

*kambijaną Proto-Germanic
kamma Swedish
cemban Old English
kemba Old Norse
kemba Icelandic
kemben Old High German
kemba Faroese
*kambijan gmw-pro
*kemben Old Dutch
kamba Old Swedish
kæmba Old Swedish
keemm Westrobothnian