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
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative komb kombe kombi kombet
accusative kombin
dative kombi kombeve kombit kombevet
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
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