Noun: camb
Gender: m
Nominative
| Singular | camb |
| Plural | cambas |
Genitive
| Singular | cambes |
| Plural | camba |
Dative
| Singular | cambe |
| Plural | cambum |
Accusative
| Singular | camb |
| Plural | cambas |
Sample Sentences
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Fēnixas habbaþ cambas on hēafde swā pāwan. (Phoenixes have crests on their head like peacocks.) [c. 1000, The Wonders of the East:]
Nouns inflected like camb
feohtling,
seoloþ,
seonoþ,
sacerd,
sleaht,
bealluc,
uprodor,
fugoloþ,
hoppsteort,
pearroc,
swiccræft,
penning,
mæssesang,
weorccræft,
tordwifel,
sandpytt,
discipul,
wyrmhord,
underling,
pundfald, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Proto-West Germanic *kamb, from Proto-Germanic *kambaz.
2. Cognate with Old Saxon camb, Dutch kam, Old High German chamb (German Kamm), Old Norse kambr (Swedish kam); and with Ancient Greek γόμφος (gómphos, “pin”), Old Armenian ծամեմ (camem, “to chew”), Russian зуб (zub). See: Dutch Nouns '
kam', German Nouns '
Kamm', Old Norse Nouns '
kambr', Swedish Nouns '
kam', Ancient Greek Nouns '
γόμφος', Russian Nouns '
зуб'.
Verbs referencing "camb"
English Nouns
comb, Middle English Nouns
comb, Swedish Nouns
kam, Latvian Nouns
zobs, Ancient Greek Nouns
γόμφος, Old Norse Nouns
kambr.
Translations