Noun: ķemme
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | ķemme |
| Accusative | ķemmi |
| Genitive | ķemmes |
| Dative | ķemmei |
| Instrumental | ķemmi |
| Locative | ķemmē |
| Vocative | ķemme |
Plural
| Nominative | ķemmes |
| Accusative | ķemmes |
| Genitive | ķemmju |
| Dative | ķemmēm |
| Instrumental | ķemmēm |
| Locative | ķemmēs |
| Vocative | ķemmes |
Sample Sentences
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raga, koka ķemme (horn, wooden comb)
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metāla, kaula, plastmasas ķemme (metal, bone, plastic comb)
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bieza ķemme (fine-tooth(ed) (lit. thick) comb)
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reta ķemme (wide-tooth(ed) (lit. rare, thin) comb)
Nouns inflected like ķemme
pieturzīme,
sakāve,
skrūve,
sadursme,
laukirbe,
biškope,
nenoteiksme,
ceptuve,
nelaime,
tēvzeme,
garumzīme,
lietuve,
lokomotīve,
slēptuve,
ķemme,
šķīve,
taukskābe,
jautājuma zīme,
kuģubūve,
dieve, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Livonian kamm, plural kämm, itself a borrowing from a Germanic language (compare German Kamm), from Proto-Germanic *kambaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos (“tooth”) (whence also Latvian zobs (“tooth”)), from *ǵembʰ- (“to bite, chew”). The original meaning was probably “toothed object.” This term is first attested (as kammes, kemmes, the e form coming from the original Germanic plural, and also from the influence of simultaneously borrowed ķemmēt (“to comb”); compare German kämmen) in the 17th century, replacing the previous more general word suka (nowadays only “brush”). See: German Nouns '
Kamm', Latvian Nouns '
zobs'.
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