Camba
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See also: camba
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Galician Camba.
Proper noun
[edit]Camba (plural Cambas)
- A surname from Galician.
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Camba is the 31516th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 734 individuals. Camba is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (48.64%) and Hispanic/Latino (35.42%) individuals.
Galician
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Rio_Camba%2C_Castrelo_do_Val.jpg/220px-Rio_Camba%2C_Castrelo_do_Val.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Igrexa_de_San_Xo%C3%A1n_de_Camba%2C_Castro_Caldelas.jpg/220px-Igrexa_de_San_Xo%C3%A1n_de_Camba%2C_Castro_Caldelas.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Pazo_de_Camba%2C_Rodeiro.jpg/220px-Pazo_de_Camba%2C_Rodeiro.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]From a local Celtic substrate language: from Proto-Celtic *kambos (“twisted, crooked”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to curve”). Compare German Chamb, a river in Germany and Czechia.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Camba
- A river in Ourense, Galicia, which flows for some 56 km before draining into the Bibei, a subaffluent of the Minho river
- an ancient county, Terra de Camba, today municipality of Rodeiro
- San Xoán de Camba (a parish of Rodeiro, Pontevedra, Galicia)
- San Salvador de Camba (a parish of Rodeiro, Pontevedra, Galicia)
- Santa Baia de Camba (a parish of Rodeiro, Pontevedra, Galicia)
- A parish of Laza, Ourense, Galicia
- A parish of Castro Caldelas, Ourense, Galicia
- A village in Ourol parish, Ourol, Lugo, Galicia
- A village in Xuances parish, Xove, Lugo, Galicia
- A village in Samarugo parish, Vilalba, Lugo, Galicia
- a surname
References
[edit]- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Camba”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- “Camba” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
- “Camba” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Greule, Albrecht (2014) Deutsches Gewässernamenbuch: Etymologie der Gewässernamen und der dazugehörigen Gebiets-, Siedlungs- und Flurnamen, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 81
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