kam

From Celtic; compare jamb and Gaelic, Irish and Welsh cam.

kam (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) crooked, awry
   • 160?, Shakespeare, Coriolanus

     This is clean kam.

• AMK, KMA, Mak, mak

From Dutch kam.

kam (plural kamme)

1. comb

Suppletive. The aorist and participle are from Proto-Albanian *pat(i)-, from Proto-Indo-European *poti-o-, cognate with Latin potior (“to have a share in, take possession of”).[1] The other forms are from Proto-Albanian *kapmi, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to seize, to grasp”), cognate with Latin capiō (“take, seize”), and akin to Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to have, to hold”) (whence English have, German haben (“to have”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 (haban, “to have”)). Cf. also Romanian am (“I have”), first-person singular indicative form of avea.

• IPA^(key): [kam]

kam (first-person singular past tense pata, participle pasur)

1. I have

• kap

• IPA^(key): /kam/

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kam

1. where (to what place)

• odkud

From Old Dutch *kamb, from Proto-Germanic *kambaz.

• IPA^(key): /kɑm/
• Rhymes: -ɑm

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Kam

kam m (plural kammen, diminutive kammetje n)

1. A comb, utensil to groom hair, fur etc.
2. (anatomy etc.; by analogy) A ridge, erect shape
3. (technical) A cam
4. bridge (e.g. of a violin)

• kamband n
• kamblad n
• kambuisje n, kametui n
• kamdoos
• kamdoublet n
• kamdrager
• kamduiker
• kamduin
• kamhaak
• kamgaren n
• kamgras n
• kamhaak
• kamhout n
• kamkever
• kammeling
• kammen
• kammer m
• kammig (also -kammig in compounds)
• kammug
• kamneus
• kamoester
• kamplaat
• kamrad n
• kamreep
• kamschede
• kamschelp
• kamslager
• kamvaren
• kamsel n
• kamvaren
• kamwiel n
• (comb types by use) haarkam, paardekam, roskam
• stofkam

kam

1. first-person singular present indicative of kammen
2. imperative of kammen

• mak

• IPA^(key): [kaːm]

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kam

1. first-person singular indicative past of kommen
2. third-person singular indicative past of kommen

Borrowed from Latin quam. The initial qu was changed to k so not to cause confusion the word with quan.

• IPA^(key): /kam/

kam

1. than, as, to (in comparison)

   La karno esas plu fresha kam la fisho. ― The meat is fresher than the fish.

   Co esas tam utila kam to. ― This one is as useful as that one.

• tam

From Proto-Slavic *kamy.

kam m

1. A stone, rock, boulder
2. A shoal, reef (above or below water)

kam

1. dative form of kas

kam m

1. (pejorative) (interrogative) why, for what reason, what's the reason (literally: who for)

   O kam tau to reikia?

   And why do you barely need this?

• (why) kodėl
• (why) dėl ko

From Armenian կամ (kam).[1][2]

kam[3]

1. threshing sledge, threshing board

   Synonyms: cencer, patoz

From Old Norse kambr

kam m (definite singular kammen, indefinite plural kammer, definite plural kammene)

1. a comb

• fjellkam
• kamaksel
• åskam

• “kam” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse kambr. Akin to English comb.

• IPA^(key): /kɑmː/

kam m (definite singular kammen, indefinite plural kammar, definite plural kammane)

1. a comb

• fjellkam
• kamaksel
• åskam

• “kam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

kam

1. than, as

   plu boni kam — better than

   tam boni kam — as good as

   min boni kam — worse than

• kom

• tam

From Proto-Slavic *kamy.

• IPA^(key): /kâːm/

kȃm m (Cyrillic spelling ка̑м)

1. (poetic) stone, rock

From Proto-Slavic *kamo.

kam (Cyrillic spelling кам)

1. (Kajkavian) where (to), in which direction, whither

• kamo

From Old Swedish kamber, from Old Norse kambr,[1] cognate with Danish kam[1] and Dutch kam. That in turn derived from Proto-Germanic *kambaz, whence also Old English camb (English comb), Old High German kamb (German Kamm).[1] Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos (“tooth (animate)”),[1] whence also Ancient Greek γόμφος (gómphos, “peg”),[1] Lithuanian žam̃bas, Old Church Slavonic зѫбъ (zǫbŭ, “tooth”), Russian зуб (zub, “tooth”).

• IPA^(key): /kam/, IPA^(key): [kʰam]

kam c

1. a comb for grooming hair
2. a comb, a fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles
3. a crest, summit of a hill or mountain ridge
4. a crest, ridge of a wave
5. a cam, a part of an engine

• bergskam (mountain ridge)
• vågkam (wave ridge)

• kamma

• kammare

From English come

kam

1. come
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 1:2:

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• kom

• IPA^(key): /cam/

kam

1. who