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kam.

a comb for grooming hair

3 characters1 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

noun/kam/[kʰam]

  1. a comb for grooming hair

    common-gender

  2. a comb, a fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles

    common-gender

  3. a crest, summit of a hill or mountain ridge

    common-gender

  4. a crest, ridge of a wave

    common-gender

  5. a cam, a part of an engine

    common-gender
Where this word comes from

From Old Swedish kamber, from Old Norse kambr, cognate with Danish kam and Dutch kam. That in turn derived 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”).

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