kambr
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *kambaz, whence also Old English camb (English comb), Old High German kamb (German Kamm). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos (“tooth (animate)”), whence also Ancient Greek γόμφος (gómphos, “peg”), Lithuanian žam̃bas, Old Church Slavonic зѫбъ (zǫbŭ, “tooth”), Russian зуб (zub, “tooth”).
Noun
kambr m
- comb
Descendants
- Danish: kam c
- Faroese: kambur m
- Icelandic: kambur m
- Norwegian (Nynorsk): kamb m
- Swedish: kam c
- Westrobothnian: kamb m
References
- kambr in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press