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.
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.
to rake (sweep or gather things with a rake) · to comb (search through) · to scrape (extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable)
çekim: geçmiş haravoinut · şimdiki haravoi · ulaç haravoiva
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.
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.