kemba

From Old Norse kemba, from Proto-Germanic *kambijaną (from the Germanic root of kambur).

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃʰɛmpa]

  Rhymes: -ɛmpa

kemba (third person singular past indicative kembdi, third person plural past indicative kembt, supine kembt)

1. to comb

From Old Norse kemba, from Proto-Germanic *kambijaną (from the Germanic root of kambur).

• IPA^(key): [ˈcʰɛmpa]

  Rhymes: -ɛmpa

kemba (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative kembdi, supine kembt)

1. (transitive, governs the accusative) to comb ^syn.

   Stelpan kemdi síða hárið sitt.

   The girl combed her long hair.

2. (transitive, governs the accusative, computer science) to debug; (to search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery) ^syn.

• This term in the sense of combing is used less than greiða, which may be considered the most usual term for combing.

• (comb): ^def. greiða
• (debug): ^def. aflúsa

• kemba hærurnar

• kambur

• hæra

From Proto-Germanic *kambijaną (itself from the Germanic root of kambr, Proto-Germanic *kambaz), whence also Old English cemban (English kemb), Old High German kemben, chempan (German kämmen)

kemba

1. to comb

• kemba in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press