Noun: cam
Sample Sentences
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Cum doun t' cam' soid [1861, Dean Ramsay, Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character:]
Nouns inflected like cam
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *ǵómbʰos
3. Etymology tree
4. Proto-Indo-European *ǵembʰ-
5. Proto-Indo-European *-os
6. Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos
7. Proto-Germanic *kambaz
8. Proto-West Germanic ᚲᚨᛒᚨ
9. Proto-West Germanic *kamb
10. Old Dutch *kamb
11. Middle Dutch kamp
12. Dutch kamder.
13. English cam
14. Recorded since the 16th century, from Dutch kam (“cog of a wheel; originally, comb”) (cognate with English comb, and preserved in modern Dutch compounds such as kamrad, kamwiel (“cog wheel”)). Doublet of comb. See: Dutch Nouns '
kam', English Nouns '
comb'.
Verbs referencing "cam"
French Nouns
cam.