
kammen
Meaning
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- to comb (use a comb to groom hair, fur etc.)
- to use any other comb, even mechanically
Synonyms
Frequency
Hyphenated as
kam‧men
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kɑ.mə(n)/
Etymology
From kam + -en. Displaced earlier kemmen (see there for further etymology), which is morphologically identical to kammen but was inherited from Proto-Germanic, demonstrating the effects of umlaut.
New
kam
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- (masculine) a comb, utensil to groom hair, fur etc.
- (broadly, masculine) a ridge or comb-like structure
- (masculine) a cam
- (masculine) a bridge (e.g. of a violin)
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