kõõm

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See also: koom and ko'om

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic . Cognate to Livonian kȭma (cartilage) and Võro koomõh, koome.

Pronunciation

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Noun

kõõm (genitive kõõma, partitive kõõma)

  1. dandruff

Declension

Further reading

  • kõõm”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • kõõm”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
  • kõõm in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)