cam

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English

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 Cam (disambiguation) on Wikipedia

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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A cam (shown in yellow)

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.

Noun

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cam (plural cams)

  1. A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
  2. A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
  3. (UK, dialect) A ridge or mound of earth.
    • 1861, Dean Ramsay, Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character:
      Cum doun t' cam' soid
  4. (climbing) A spring-loaded camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Welsh: cam
Translations
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Etymology 2

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Clipping of camera.

Noun

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cam (plural cams)

  1. (informal) Camera.
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Translations
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Verb

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cam (third-person singular simple present cams, present participle camming, simple past and past participle cammed)

  1. To go on webcam with someone.

Etymology 3

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Adverb

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cam (comparative more cam, superlative most cam)

  1. Alternative form of kam

Further reading

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Anagrams

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English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *ǵómbʰos

Acholi

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Noun

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cam

  1. food

Caló

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Etymology

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Inherited from Romani kham, from Sanskrit घर्म (gharmá, hot weather, sunshine).

Noun

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cam m (plural cames)

  1. (astronomy) sun
    Synonym: ocán

References

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  • cam” in J. Tineo Rebolledo, A Chipicalli (La Llengua Gitana), Granada: Gómez de la Cruz, 1900, →OCLC, page 26.
  • cam” in Francisco Quindalé, Diccionario gitano, Madrid: Oficina Tipográfica del Hospicio.
  • cam” in Vocabulario : Caló - Español, Portal del Flamenco y Universidad.

Chinese

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Etymology

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From English cam, clipping of camera.

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Noun

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cam

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) camera, especially for filming, computing or surveillance purposes (Classifier: c;  c;  c;  c)

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Verb

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cam

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to monitor or surveil with a camera

French

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Etymology

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From English cam, a shortening of camera.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cam f (plural cams)

  1. (cinematography) cam (device for filming)

Noun

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cam m (uncountable)

  1. (military, nautical) contre-amiral (rear admiral (RAdm))

Alternative forms

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  • CAm (contre-amiral)

Anagrams

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Galician

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Noun

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cam m (plural cans, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of can

References

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  • cam” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Malay cam. From Sanskrit [Term?]. Compare Urak Lawoi' จับ (cap, to remember).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃam/, [ˈt͡ʃam]

Verb

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cam

  1. (only with a negative) to be interested; to be taken by

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Further reading

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish camm. The sense bent, gay is a semantic loan from English bent.

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Adjective

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cam (genitive singular masculine caim, genitive singular feminine caime, plural cama, comparative caime)

  1. crooked
  2. (offensive) bent (homosexual)
    Synonym: lúbtha

Declension

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cam cham gcam
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 291, page 104

Further reading

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Malay

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Etymology

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From Sanskrit [Term?]. Compare Urak Lawoi' จับ (cap, to remember).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃam/ [ˈt͡ʃam]

Verb

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cam (Jawi spelling چم)

  1. to recognize by sight; to identify; to remember what has been seen
    Synonym: kenal pasti

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Indonesian: cam

Further reading

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Manx

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Etymology

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From Old Irish camm.

Adjective

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cam (plural cammey)

  1. crooked
  2. deformed
  3. deceitful
  4. knotty (of wood)

Verb

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cam (verbal noun cammey, past participle cammit)

  1. bow, distort, hook (as finger), crank (of object)

Mutation

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Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cam cham gam
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Northern Kurdish

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Etymology

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Related to Persian جام (jâm).

Noun

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cam f

  1. glass

Old Irish

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Adjective

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cam

  1. Alternative spelling of camm

Declension

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o/ā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative cam cam cam
Vocative caim*
cam**
Accusative cam caim
Genitive caim caime caim
Dative cam caim cam
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative caim cama
Vocative camu
cama
Accusative camu
cama
Genitive cam
Dative camaib
Notes *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative

**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
cam cham cam
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Romanian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin quam, or more likely from camai, from Latin quam magis.

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Adverb

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cam

  1. approximately, a little
  2. rather
    Lacul ăsta e cam murdar.
    This lake is rather dirty.
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Scots

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Verb

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cam

  1. past of come

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish camm.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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cam

  1. crooked, askew

Declension

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First declension; forms of the positive degree:

Case Masculine singular Feminine singular Plural
Nominative cam cham cama
Vocative chaim chaim cama
Genitive chaim chaim/caime cam
Dative cham chaim cama

Comparative/superlative: caime

Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
cam cham
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Southwestern Dinka

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Noun

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cam

  1. food

References

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  • Dinka-English Dictionary[1], 2005

Tày

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Cognates in varieties not in Vietnam would suggest earlier borrowing, but I can't find Nôm Tày characters for this.”

Noun

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(classifiers mạy or mác) cam

  1. orange
    bủi mác camslices of orange
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Etymology 2

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Calque or borrowing from Vietnamese?”)

Noun

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cam

  1. a vague kind of mouth ache, typically found in children
    Đếch nọi pền cam.
    The children got mouthaches.
    cam cưa, cam nồm(please add an English translation of this usage example)
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Etymology 3

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Particle

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cam

  1. (topicalizer) as for ..., it is/does/will ...
    Synonym: te̱
    Cần cam lai cần cam nọi.
    Some people have too much, some people have too little.

References

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  • Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎[2][3] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
  • Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎[4] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
  • Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎[5] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish جام (cam), from Persian جام (jâm).

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Noun

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cam (definite accusative camı, plural camlar)

  1. glass
    Synonym: sırça
  2. (informal) window
    Synonym: pencere

Declension

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Inflection
Nominative cam
Definite accusative camı
Singular Plural
Nominative cam camlar
Definite accusative camı camları
Dative cama camlara
Locative camda camlarda
Ablative camdan camlardan
Genitive camın camların
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular camım camlarım
2nd singular camın camların
3rd singular camı camları
1st plural camımız camlarımız
2nd plural camınız camlarınız
3rd plural camları camları
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular camımı camlarımı
2nd singular camını camlarını
3rd singular camını camlarını
1st plural camımızı camlarımızı
2nd plural camınızı camlarınızı
3rd plural camlarını camlarını
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular camıma camlarıma
2nd singular camına camlarına
3rd singular camına camlarına
1st plural camımıza camlarımıza
2nd plural camınıza camlarınıza
3rd plural camlarına camlarına
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular camımda camlarımda
2nd singular camında camlarında
3rd singular camında camlarında
1st plural camımızda camlarımızda
2nd plural camınızda camlarınızda
3rd plural camlarında camlarında
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular camımdan camlarımdan
2nd singular camından camlarından
3rd singular camından camlarından
1st plural camımızdan camlarımızdan
2nd plural camınızdan camlarınızdan
3rd plural camlarından camlarından
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular camımın camlarımın
2nd singular camının camlarının
3rd singular camının camlarının
1st plural camımızın camlarımızın
2nd plural camınızın camlarınızın
3rd plural camlarının camlarının
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular camım camlarım
2nd singular camsın camlarsın
3rd singular cam
camdır
camlar
camlardır
1st plural camız camlarız
2nd plural camsınız camlarsınız
3rd plural camlar camlardır

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Adjective

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cam

  1. of glass

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Vietnamese

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Etymology 1

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Sino-Vietnamese word from (orange).

Noun

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(classifier cây, trái, quả) cam

  1. orange, such as Citrus × sinensis or Citrus aurantium (bitter orange)
  2. Short for cam sành (Citrus reticulata × sinensis).
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Adjective

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cam

  1. made of oranges
  2. (màu ~) of the colour orange
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Colors in Vietnamese · màu sắc (layout · text)
     trắng      xám      đen
             đỏ; thắm, thẫm              cam; nâu              vàng; kem
             vàng chanh              xanh, xanh lá cây, xanh lục, lục              xanh bạc hà; xanh lục đậm
             xanh lơ, hồ thuỷ; xanh mòng két              xanh, xanh da trời, thiên thanh              xanh, xanh dương, xanh nước biển, xanh lam, lam
             tím; chàm              tía              hồng

Etymology 2

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Noun

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cam

  1. Short for camera.

Etymology 3

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Sino-Vietnamese word from (sweet).

Verb

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cam

  1. (chiefly in compounds) to be content with
  2. (only in compounds) to pledge, to guarantee
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Romanization

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cam

  1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of
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Welsh

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Celtic *kanksman, *kanxsman, from *kengeti.

Noun

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cam m (plural camau)

  1. step, pace, footstep
  2. footfall (sound made by a footstep)
  3. footprint
  4. step (of a process), stage, phase
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Etymology 2

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From Proto-Brythonic *kam, from Proto-Celtic *kambos.

Adjective

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cam (feminine singular cam, plural ceimion, equative camed, comparative camach, superlative camaf)

  1. bent, crooked, distorted
  2. wrong, false, incorrect
    Gweithio yn gamTo do incorrectly
  3. wrong, unjust
  4. one-eyed, squint-eyed
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Noun

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cam m (plural camau)

  1. wrong, misdeed
    Synonyms: camwedd, pechod

Etymology 3

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Borrowed from English cam.

Noun

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cam m (plural camau)

  1. cam

Mutation

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
cam gam ngham cham
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Yola

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Verb

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cam

  1. Alternative form of caame
    • 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, line 5:
      Yola Vather Deruse hay raree cam thoare,
      Old Father Devereux early came there,

References

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  • Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 133

Zhuang

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Etymology

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From Proto-Tai *c.raːmᴬ (to ask). Cognate with Thai ถาม (tǎam), Northern Thai ᨳᩣ᩠ᨾ, Lao ຖາມ (thām), ᦏᦱᧄ (ṫhaam), Shan ထၢမ် (thǎam), Ahom 𑜌𑜪 (thaṃ), 𑜌𑜉𑜫 (tham) or 𑜌𑜢𑜤𑜉𑜫 (thüm), Saek ถ่าม.

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Verb

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cam (Sawndip forms 𰇼 or 𭆻 or 𭈧 or 𠮿 or or 𮞁, 1957–1982 spelling cam)

  1. to ask (to request an answer)
  2. to inquire; to ask
  3. to ask for instructions