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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kamp

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin campus (“field”).[1]

Noun

*kamp m[2]

  1. field, battlefield

Inflection
Masculine a-stem
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

Descendants
  • Old English: camp
    • Middle English: kampe, komp, comp
      • English: camp (see there for further descendants)
      • Scots: camp
  • Old Frisian: komp
  • Old Saxon: *kamp
  • Old Dutch: *camp
  • Old High German: kampf

References
  1. Miller, D. Gary (2012 June 13) “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.
  2. 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”
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