kemba
See also: ke-mbá
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse kemba, from Proto-Germanic *kambijaną (from the Germanic root of kambur).
Pronunciation
Verb
kemba (third person singular past indicative kembdi, third person plural past indicative kembt, supine kembt)
- to comb
Conjugation
Conjugation of kemba (group v-1) | ||
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infinitive | kemba | |
supine | kembt | |
participle (a7)1 | kembandi | kembdur |
present | past | |
first singular | kembi | kembdi |
second singular | kembir | kembdi |
third singular | kembir | kembdi |
plural | kemba | kembdu |
imperative | ||
singular | kemb! | |
plural | kembið! | |
1Only the past participle being declined. |
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse kemba, from Proto-Germanic *kambijaną (from the Germanic root of kambur).
Pronunciation
Verb
kemba (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative kembdi, supine kembt)
- (transitive, governs the accusative) to combTemplate:jump
- Stelpan kemdi síða hárið sitt.
- The girl combed her long hair.
- (transitive, governs the accusative, computer science) to debug; (to search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery)Template:jump
Usage notes
- This term in the sense of combing is used less than greiða, which may be considered the most usual term for combing.
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See also
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *kambijaną (itself from the Germanic root of kambr, Proto-Germanic *kambaz), whence also Old English cemban (English kemb), Old High German kemben, chempan (German kämmen)
Verb
kemba
- to comb
Descendants
References
- “kemba”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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