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.
A brush stroke. · The punctuation mark །, used analogously to a period.
enmcarden, tesen, tosen
grcκνᾰ́πτω
kmrşe kirin, şeh kirin
Etimoloji
From Ancient Greek ξαίνω (xaínō), from Proto-Indo-European *ksen- (“to scratch; to comb, card”), from *késr̥ (“comb”), from the root *kes-. Possible cognates include Latin sentis (“thorn”), Irish cíor (“comb”), English hair.