comb
Middle English
/ˈkɔːmb/, /ˈkamb/
noun
Definitions
- A comb toothed tool for holding or grooming hair
- An instrument similar to a comb used for differing things.
- A comb or wattle usually of a rooster
- A honeycomb hexagonal structure of bees
- (rare) The top of a mount or rise.
- (rare) The palm or the analogous part of the foot.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English camb (comb) inherited from Proto-Germanic *kambaz (comb) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos (tooth, peg, row of teeth, teeth).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ǵómbʰos
Gloss
tooth, peg, row of teeth, teeth
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
歯
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- backcomb English
- coaming English
- cockscomb English
- comb English
- combability English
- combable English
- combed English
- comber English
- combest English
- combeth English
- combfish English
- combjelly English
- combless English
- comblike English
- combover English
- combwise English
- currycomb English
- flaxcomb English
- honeycomb English
- horse-comb English
- microcomb English
- polycomb English
- recomb English
- uncomb English
- *ǵómbʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵómbʰos Proto-Indo-European
- *kambaz Proto-Germanic
- camb Old English
- horscamb Old English
- hunigcamb Old English
- huniġcamb Old English
- hony Middle English
- hony combe Middle English
- hors Middle English
- horscomb Middle English
- kambr Old Norse
- kamb Old High German
- *kamb gmw-pro
- *kamb Old Dutch
- *ȷ́ámbʰas Proto-Indo-Iranian
- kamber Old Swedish
- kuum̧ Marshallese
- *komb Old Frisian
- kom Tok Pisin
- konim Tok Pisin
- *dzamba Proto-Albanian
- *źámbas Proto-Balto-Slavic
- *gómpʰos Proto-Hellenic
- *keme Proto-Tocharian