kamuila
Lithuanian
Etymology
From dialectal Polish chamujło (“tyke, oik, peasant”), from cham (“ditto”), from Ancient Greek Χάμ (Khám, “Ham, son of Noah”), from Hebrew חָם.[1][2]
Compare dialectal Belarusian хамуйла (xamujla, “ribald, oik, gruff man”), хамула (xamula, “loser”).
Noun
kamùila m (plural kamùilos) stress pattern 1 (obsolete)
- (derogatory) uneducated, untidy, scruffy person
- (derogatory) ribald, lout
Declension
declension of kamuila
| singular (vienaskaita) | plural (daugiskaita) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (vardininkas) | kamùila | kamùilos |
| genitive (kilmininkas) | kamùilos | kamùilų |
| dative (naudininkas) | kamùilai | kamùiloms |
| accusative (galininkas) | kamùilą | kamùilas |
| instrumental (įnagininkas) | kamùila | kamùilomis |
| locative (vietininkas) | kamùiloje | kamùilose |
| vocative (šauksmininkas) | kamùila | kamùilos |
Related terms
- kamas
- chamas
References
- Rolandas Kregždys (2016) Lietuvių kalbos polonizmų žodynas [Dictionary of Polish loanwords in Lithuanian], page 346
- Rolandas Kregždys (2018), “Onyms and appellatives of onomastic originof the Dictionary of Polish Loanwords in Lithuanian”, in Onomastyka-neohumanistyka-nauki społeczne, DOI:, page 275
Further reading
- “kamuila”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2021