camox

Latin

Borrowed from Gaulish camox (5th c. AD, Polemius Silvius), probably from an extinct Alpine language (Raetic, Ancient Ligurian).

camōx m (genitive camōcis); third declension

Third-declension noun.

Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: camosciu, camusciu, camusgiu
- Italian: camoscio
- Sicilian: camusciu
  - → Maltese: kamoxx
North Italian:
- Friulian: cjamoç
- Ladin: ciamorc
- Ligurian: camuscio
- Lombard: camozz
- Piedmontese: camoss
- Romansch: chamutsch
- → Italian: camozza
Gallo-Romance:
- Old Catalan: camusa
  - Catalan: camussa
- Franco-Provençal: chamôs, chamôs
  Fribourgeois: tsamo, tsàmo
- Old French: chamois, camois
  - Middle French: chamois
    - French: chamois (see there for further descendants)
    - → English: chamois, shammy
      - → Irish: seamaí
- Old Occitan: camos, chamos
  - Occitan: camos, camóç
  - → Old Galician-Portuguese: *camuça
    - Galician: camurza
    - Portuguese: camuça, camurça
  - → Old Spanish: gamuço
    - Spanish: gamuza, camuza
      - → Tagalog: gamusa
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: camosciu
  Logudorese: camosciu, camusciu
  
  Nuorese: camosciu, camossiu
→ Old High German: gamiza, gamez
- Middle High German: gamize, gameze, gamez, gamz
  - Alemannic German: Gemschi
  - Bavarian: Gams
  - German: Gämse, Gams (chiefly Bavarian, but more widespread in Gamswild, Gamsbock), Gemse (superseded spelling) (see there for further descendants)
  - →⇒ Czech: kamzík
  - → Lithuanian: gemzė
  - → Middle Low German: gemse
    - → Swedish: gems
      - → Faroese: gemsa
      - → Finnish: gemssi
      - → Icelandic: gemsa
  - → Polish: giemza, gemza (Middle Polish), giemża (obsolete)

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