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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kamp
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin campus.[1]
Noun
*kamp m[2]
- field (esp. of battle)
- battle
Inflection
Masculine a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *kamp | |
Genitive | *kampas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *kamp | *kampō, *kampōs |
Accusative | *kamp | *kampā |
Genitive | *kampas | *kampō |
Dative | *kampē | *kampum |
Instrumental | *kampu | *kampum |
Derived terms
- *kampijan
- *kampōn
Descendants
- Old English: camp
- Middle English: kampe, komp, comp
- English: camp (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: camp
- Middle English: kampe, komp, comp
- Old Frisian: komp
- North Frisian: kåmp
- Saterland Frisian: Kamp, Komp
- West Frisian: kamp
- Old Saxon: *kamp
- Middle Low German: kamp
- German Low German: Kamp
- → Danish: kamp
- → German: Kamp
- → Norwegian: kamp
- → Swedish: kamp
- Middle Low German: kamp
- Old Dutch: *camp
- Middle Dutch: camp
- Dutch: kamp
- Middle Dutch: camp
- Old High German: kampf
- Middle High German: kampf
- German: Kampf
- Middle High German: kampf
References
- Miller, D. Gary (13 June 2012), “Early loanwords from Latin and Greek”, in External Influences on English: From its Beginnings to the Renaissance, Oxford University Press, DOI:, →ISBN, § 4.5, page 62.
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135: “PWGmc *kamp”