kaarden

Meaning

to card (to use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning)

Concepts

card

cull

tease

teasel

Synonyms

hekelen

Translations

carder

auskämmen

ξαίνω

démêler

peigner

cardar

cardar

cardar

karden

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkaːr.də(n)/

Etymology

From Old French carde, from Old Occitan carda, deverbal from carder, from Late Latin caritare, from Latin carrere (“to comb with a card”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). By surface analysis, kaarde + -en.