"comb" meaning in Middle English

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Noun

IPA: /kɔːm(b)/, /kɔm(b)/, /kam(b)/ [Northern-Middle-English, mainly], /kaːm(b)/ [Northern-Middle-English, mainly] Forms: combes [plural]
Etymology: From Old English camb, comb, from Proto-West Germanic *kamb, from Proto-Germanic *kambaz. Etymology templates: {{dercat|enm|gmw-pro|gem-pro|ine-pro|inh=3}}, {{inh|enm|ang|camb}} Old English camb, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*kamb}} Proto-West Germanic *kamb, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*kambaz}} Proto-Germanic *kambaz Head templates: {{head|enm|nouns|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} comb, {{enm-noun|combes}} comb (plural combes)
  1. A comb (toothed tool for holding or grooming hair) Categories (topical): Hair, Toiletries
    Sense id: en-comb-enm-noun-v1FhDBpa Disambiguation of Hair: 55 7 7 20 3 8 Disambiguation of Toiletries: 44 5 9 32 5 5
  2. An instrument similar to a comb used for differing things.
    Sense id: en-comb-enm-noun-GXyEMojM
  3. A comb or wattle (usually of a rooster)
    Sense id: en-comb-enm-noun-p1olDael
  4. A honeycomb (hexagonal structure of bees) Categories (place): Landforms
    Sense id: en-comb-enm-noun-sbv~KIvL Disambiguation of Landforms: 17 13 16 40 6 6 Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 21 17 16 37 3 6
  5. (rare) The top of a mount or rise. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-comb-enm-noun-UyIHqJN4
  6. (rare) The palm or the analogous part of the foot. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-comb-enm-noun-0Hpli0HR
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: combe, kombe, camb, kambe, cambe Related terms: hony comb, horscomb, kemben

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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Download raw JSONL data for comb meaning in Middle English (3.2kB)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.