Talk:unkempt

is these etymology related to the Brabantian for un -- Combed/ongekamd/-likt?--史凡 07:41, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

no, kempt in Middle English must have meant the same as gekämmt in German. There is even an entry for the obsolete (ME?) verb (deprecated template usage) kemb in “kemb”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. with one quotation, if you are interested. The uſer hight Bogorm converſation 09:19, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

I had a look at it and found it indeed interesting, thank you!!space "ongelikt" figuratively for 'rude'in Brabantian, kind of a lowere German dialect , basis of Dutch, I addet it as I felt it was kind of related, comes from" un Licked bear", like what the cat does ingroming[in the proverbial bear doznt so it refers to a person without manners/who has no manners, but to be sureI would have to look it up myself again, I have to admit, even being a native speaker [perhaps it is in the wictionary]--史凡 12:29, 12 March 2009 (UTC)