komb

Albanian

Alternative forms

• komë, kom (Gheg)

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

• kombësi
• kombëtar
  • kombëtarisht
  • mbarëkombëtar
  • ndërkombëtar
  • tejkombëtar
  • kombëtarizëm
  • kombëtarist

Further reading

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