cemban

== Old English == === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *kambijan, from Proto-Germanic *kambijaną. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkem.bɑn/ === Verb === cemban to comb ==== Usage notes ==== In Old English, you usually comb someone's head, not their hair (Hū, ne wilt þū þīn hēafod cemban ǣr þū tō scōle gā? = “Don't you want to comb your hair [lit. head] before you go to school?”), or else you comb the person themselves (Sēo mōdor cemde þæt ċild = “The mother combed the child's hair [lit. the child]”). See also efesian (“to cut hair”). ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ācemban (“to comb out”) ⇒ ācumba (“that which has been combed out”) Middle English: okome English: oakum Middle Scots: ockam ==== Related terms ==== camb ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: kemben, kembe, kemen, kemmen, kymbe, kembyn, keembe, keme (Late Middle English), kemyn (Promptorium Parvulorum)English: kemb (obsolete except for (un)kempt), comb (remodelled on the noun)Middle Scots: kem, kemeScots: keam, kemp (obsolete), camb, came, kaim, kame (remodelled on the noun camb)