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

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