camox

Latin

Alternative forms

  • *camōcius, *camōcia f

Etymology

Borrowed from Gaulish camox (5th c. AD, Polemius Silvius), probably from an extinct Alpine language (Raetic, Ancient Ligurian).

Pronunciation

Noun

camōx m (genitive camōcis); third declension

  1. (Late Latin) chamois

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative camōx camōcēs
genitive camōcis camōcum
dative camōcī camōcibus
accusative camōcem camōcēs
ablative camōce camōcibus
vocative camōx camōcēs

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Corsican: camosciu, camusciu, camusgiu
    • Italian: camoscio
    • Sicilian: camusciu
      • → Maltese: kamoxx
  • North Italian:
    • Friulian: cjamoç
    • Ladin: ciamorc
    • Ligurian: camuscio
    • Lombard: camozz
    • Piedmontese: camoss
    • Romansch: chamutsch
    • → Italian: camozza
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: camosciu
      Logudorese: camosciu, camusciu
      Nuorese: camosciu, camossiu
  • → Old High German: gamiza, gamez
    • Middle High German: gamize, gameze, gamez, gamz
      • Alemannic German: Gemschi
      • Bavarian: Gams
      • German: Gämse, Gams (chiefly Bavarian, but more widespread in Gamswild, Gamsbock), Gemse (superseded spelling) (see there for further descendants)
      • →⇒ Czech: kamzík
      • → Lithuanian: gemzė
      • → Middle Low German: gemse
        • → Swedish: gems
          • → Faroese: gemsa
          • → Finnish: gemssi
          • → Icelandic: gemsa
      • → Polish: giemza, gemza (Middle Polish), giemża (obsolete)

Tonkawa

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃəmɔx/, /ʃamɔx/

Adjective

camox

  1. red

References

  • Harry Hoijer, Tonkawa, an Indian language of Texas
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