Kamm
German (Berlin)
/kam/
noun
Definitions
- comb
- crest (of various animals), comb (of rooster)
- (cooking) shoulder (of pork), neck (of mutton/beef)
- ridge (of hills, mountains)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle High German camb, kamb, chamb inherited from Old High German chamb (comb) inherited from *kamb inherited from Proto-Germanic *kambaz (comb) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos (tooth, peg, row of teeth, teeth), *ǵómbʰ- (peg, tooth, gnaw through, horn, pierce).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ǵómbʰ-
Gloss
peg, tooth, gnaw through, horn, pierce
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
歯
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Hahnen German
- Hahnenkamm German
- *ǵómbʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵómbʰos Proto-Indo-European
- kam Norwegian Bokmål
- *kambaz Proto-Germanic
- kam Swedish
- kam Norwegian Nynorsk
- camb Old English
- horscamb Old English
- hunigcamb Old English
- comb Middle English
- kambr Old Norse
- kam Danish
- *zǫbrъ Proto-Slavic
- kambur Icelandic
- chamb Old High German
- kamb Old High German
- ķemme Latvian
- kambur Faroese
- camb, kamb, chamb Middle High German
- kamb Middle High German
- Kamp Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- *kamb gmw-pro
- kamm Estonian
- kammima Estonian
- *kamb Old Dutch
- *ȷ́ámbʰas Proto-Indo-Iranian
- kamb Old Saxon
- kamber Old Swedish
- *komb Old Frisian
- *dzamba Proto-Albanian
- *źámbas Proto-Balto-Slavic
- kamm Livonian
- *gómpʰos Proto-Hellenic
- kamb Elfdalian
- køm Scanian
- *keme Proto-Tocharian