kam

The story

1. Proto-Celtic · derived from*kambos
2. Proto-Brythonic · derived from*kam
3. Old Welsh · derived fromcam
4. Middle Welsh · derived fromcam
5. Welsh · borrowed fromcam“bent, crooked, distorted”
6. English todaykam

From Welsh cam (“bent, crooked, distorted”), from Middle Welsh cam, from Old Welsh cam, from Proto-Brythonic *kam, from Proto-Celtic *kambos. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic cam, Irish cam, French camus (“flat-nosed”) and more distantly Ancient Greek σκαμβός (skambós, “crooked, bent, bow-legged”). Doublet of camous.

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