Proto-Celtic

*kambos

‘twisted, crooked’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Celtic *kambos.

14 English words in this record descend from Proto-Celtic *kambos, most familiar first.

• change ← changen ← changier ← cambiāre ← cambio
• exchange ← eschaunge ← eschaunge ← eschange ← *excambiāre
• changer ← chaungere ← chaungen ← chaungier ← changier
• kam ← cam ← cam ← cam
• changeable ← chaungeable ← chaungeable ← cambiō ← cambium
• unchangeable ← unchaungeable ← chaungeable ← chaungeable ← cambiō
• cambium ← cambion
• camanachd ← caman ← cammán ← camm
• cambion ← cambio ← cambium
• cambist ← cambiste ← cambiō ← cambium ← cambion
• caman ← cammán ← camm
• cangue ← canga ← *cambica

More words from *kambos

• camous
• cangaceiro

Etymograph / Proto-Celtic *kambos