to comb (use a comb to groom hair, fur etc.) · to use any other comb, even mechanically
çekim: geçmiş kamden · ortaç gekamd · şimdiki kamt · ulaç kammend
köken: From kam + -en. Displaced earlier kemmen (see there for further etymology), which is morphologically identical to kammen but was inherited from Proto-Germanic, demonstrating the effects of umlaut.
çekim: geçmiş χτένισα · ortaç έχοντας χτενίσει · şimdiki χτενίζει · ulaç χτενίζοντας
köken: From Ancient Greek κτενίζω (ktenízō, “to comb”). By surface analysis, χτένα (chténa, “a comb”) + -ίζω (-ízo). The third sense, to "comb, search", is a semantic loan from English comb.
to comb (to groom the hair with a toothed implement)
çekim: geçmiş kammade · ortaç kammad · ulaç kammande
köken: From Old Swedish kamba, replaced older umlauted form kæmba under influence by the noun kamber (“comb”), from Old Norse kemba, from Proto-Germanic *kambijaną. Compare Danish kæmme, Norwegian kjemme, Icelandic kemba.
to comb; to brush (to untangle hair, fur, etc. by running something, e.g. a comb or brush, through it) · to comb; to brush; to do (to style one's hair) · to comb (to clean and smooth fiber or products made of fiber or other material; to separate better fiber from worse fiber)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kes-der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *késtei Proto-Slavic *česàti Old Polish czosać Polish czesać Inherited from Old Polish czosać. The change of regular -o- > -e- is due to morphological leveling with present tense forms.
çekim: geçmiş česala · ortaç česala · şimdiki česá
köken: Inherited from Old Czech česati, from Proto-Slavic *česati (“comb, scratch”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *késtei. Cognates include Serbo-Croatian češljati.
köken: From Proto-Vietic *caːs (“to comb”), from Proto-Austroasiatic *caːɕ (“to comb”). Compare also Laven cas, Chrau saːs, Ngeq caːjh. Doublet of nải (“hand (of banana)”) through an infixed form.