Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *kambaz.
Noun
ᚲᚨᛒᚨ (kaba /kamba/) m
- comb
- c. 250–320, Erfurt-Frienstedt comb (the ᚲ-rune is mirrored)[1]
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *kamb
- Old English: camb, comb
- Old Frisian: ᚳᚪᛒᚢ (kabu /kambu/), ᚳᚩᛒᚢ (kobu /kombu/)
- North Frisian:
- Föhr: kum
- Hallig: kööm
- Heligoland: Kum
- Mooring: köm
- Saterland Frisian: Koum m
- West Frisian: kaem, kaam
- Old Saxon: kamb, camb
- Middle Low German: kam
- German Low German: Kamm
- Plautdietsch: Kaum
- Old Dutch: *kamb
- Old High German: kamb, camb, chamb
References
- ^ Inscription/entry SG-36 in the RuneS-Database ot the research project Runic Writing in the Germanic Languages (RuneS) of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, 2025.