Cambo-dūnum

Grammatical information: adj.

Meaning: `crooked, bandy-legged' (LXX, hell. pap., Gal.),

Derivatives: σκαμβό-πους `with crooked feet' (Ps.-Archyt.), σκαμβόομαι `to curve' (Aq.). Further in H.: σκάμβυκες σκόλοπες, χάρακες (as θρῆνυξ a. o.); σκαμβάλυξ σκαμβός, στρεβλός (as if from *σκαμβαλος; cf. βαύκαλος a. o.; ταρβάλυξ, φεψάλυξ a. o.); σκαμβηρίζοντες ὀλισθαίνοντες (: *σκαμβηρός like ὀλισθηρός a. o.).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin] (S)

Etymology: Popular formation with α-vowel and β-suffix like κλαμβός, θραμβός; cf. further σκιμβός, λιμβός, λομβός and several other words not frequently found in literature (Chantraine Form. 260 ff., Schwyzer 496). For such a word one should not look for a straight genealogy. Inside Greek one thinks with Ehrlich Sprachgesch. 15 best of σκάζω (semantic doubts in WP. 2, 539); under non-Greek words Fick 2, 78 f. adduced OIr. camm `crooked', Gaul. PN Cambo-dūnum, so that one compares also the family of κάμπτω. Further combinations of varying value in WP. l.c., Pok. 918, W.-Hofmann s. cambiō and campus w. rich lit.; further to it Machek Ling. Posn. 5, 61. -- Cross of σκάζω with the very rare σκιμβός (Sommer Sprachgesch. u. Wortbed. 426) is not probable. -- The word is clearly Pre-Greek (suff. - υκ-, - αλ-); or does Celt. camb- points to a Eur. substratum?

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