Etymograph

English

recam

From re- + cam.

Formed from re- + cam

Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’

English re-

Proto-Indo-European *ǵembʰ- ‘to bite’

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Proto-West Germanic *kamb ‘comb’

Old Dutch *kamb

Middle Dutch kamp

Dutch kam ‘cog of a wheel’

English cam

Today it means

verb To recreate (a recording of gameplay in a three-dimensional playfield) with different camera positioning and movement from the original camera that followed the player's viewpoint.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “recam”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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