kemba

See also: ke-mbá

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse kemba, from Proto-Germanic *kambijaną (from the Germanic root of kambur).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃʰɛmpa]

  Rhymes: -ɛmpa

Verb

kemba (third person singular past indicative kembdi, third person plural past indicative kembt, supine kembt)

1. to comb

Conjugation

Conjugation of kemba (group v-1)
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.

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse kemba, from Proto-Germanic *kambijaną (from the Germanic root of kambur).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈcʰɛmpa]

  Rhymes: -ɛmpa

Verb

kemba (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative kembdi, supine kembt)

1. (transitive, governs the accusative) to combTemplate:jump

   Stelpan kemdi síða hárið sitt.

   The girl combed her long hair.

2. (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.

Synonyms

• Template:jump greiða
• Template:jump aflúsa

Derived terms

• kemba hærurnar

Related terms

• kambur

See also

• hæra

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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

1. to comb

Descendants

• Danish: kæmme
• Faroese: kemba

• Icelandic: kemba
• Norwegian: kjemme
• Swedish: kamma (Old Swedish kæmba)

References

• “kemba”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press