cambo

cambo

Galician

Etymology

15th century. From Proto-Celtic *kambos (“curved”). Cognate with Old Irish camm (“crooked, bent”), Welsh cam (“crooked”).[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkambo̝/

Noun

cambo m (plural cambos)

1. a bent stick or twig traditionally used for transporting and selling doughnuts and fish

   Synonym: lercha

2. (by extension) string, strand (of things)
   • 1438, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 125:

     que desen cada canbo de scoallos por duas brancas, et que fose en cada canbo çinco escoallos

     they shall pay for each string of chubs two brancas, and each string should contain five chubs

3. a hook provided with a long handle used in the collection of fruit
4. a hook

   Synonym: gancho

Derived terms

• cambelo

References

• “canbo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cambo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cambo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cambo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

1. Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “cama II”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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Portuguese

Verb

cambo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cambar