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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.moːks/, [ˈkämoːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.moks/, [ˈkäːmoks]

Noun

camōx m (genitive camōcis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) chamois

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	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:
  • Old Catalan: camusa
    • Catalan: camussa
  • Franco-Provençal: chamôs, chamôs

    Fribourgeois: tsamo, tsàmo

  • Old French: chamois, camois
    • Middle French: chamois
      • French: chamois (see there for further descendants)
      • → English: chamois, shammy
        • → Irish: seamaí
  • Old Occitan: camos, chamos
    • Occitan: camos, camóç
    • → Old Galician-Portuguese: *camuça
      • Galician: camurza
      • Portuguese: camuça, camurça
    • → Old Spanish: gamuço
      • Spanish: gamuza, camuza
        • → Tagalog: gamusa
• 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; Gemse (see there for further descendants)
    • →⇒ Czech: kamzík
    • → Lithuanian: gemzė
    • → Middle Low German: gemse
      • → Swedish: gems
        • → Faroese: gemsa
        • → Finnish: gemssi
        • → Icelandic: gemsa
    • → Polish: giemza, gemza; giemża

Tonkawa

Alternative forms

• samox

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃəmɔx/, /ʃamɔx/

Adjective

camox

1. red

References

• Harry Hoijer, Tonkawa, an Indian language of Texas