komb

komb

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos (“village, home”), from Proto-Indo-European *tḱey- (“to settle, cultivate”). Compare Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), (perhaps) κώμη (kṓmē, “burg, unwalled village”), Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), German Heim (“home”), Icelandic heimur (“abode, village, home, the world”).

Noun

komb m (plural kombe, definite kombi, definite plural kombet)

  1. nation, people, community, folk

Declension

Declension of komb
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative komb kombi kombe kombet
accusative kombin
dative kombi kombit kombeve kombeve
ablative kombesh

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 59, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder

Further reading

  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980
  • “komb”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Newmark, Leonard (1999), “komb”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎[2], Oxford: Oxford University Press
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