{"id":2334,"date":"2022-11-12T16:33:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T16:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2334"},"modified":"2022-11-12T16:33:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T16:33:08","slug":"celtic-pathways-crooked-and-twisted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2334","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Pathways &#8211; Crooked and Twisted"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Celtic Pathways &amp;#8211; Crooked and Twisted\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-11-12T16:33:08+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In this episode we\u2019re looking at some crooked and twisted words.\n\n\n\nIn Proto-Celtic, the word *kambos meant twisted, crooked or bent. It comes from the Proto-Indo-European word *kh\u2082em- (to arch, bend, curve), from *(s)\u1e31h\u2082embos (crooked)  [source].\n\nD...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/crooked.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5671\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2334-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/crooked.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/crooked.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/crooked.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/crooked.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2334-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/crooked.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"crooked.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this episode we\u2019re looking at some <strong>crooked<\/strong> and <strong>twisted<\/strong> words.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/32668702414\/in\/photolist-T4nG9K-RLPD4U\" title=\"Spiral staircase in Conwy \/ Grisiau troellog yng Nghonwy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3949\/32668702414_ac79d0708c_z.jpg\" alt=\"Spiral staircase in Conwy \/ Grisiau troellog yng Nghonwy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In Proto-Celtic, the word <strong>*kambos<\/strong> meant twisted, crooked or bent. It comes from the Proto-Indo-European word <em>*kh\u2082em-<\/em> (to arch, bend, curve), from <em>*(s)\u1e31h\u2082embos<\/em> (crooked)  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/kambos\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Descendents in the modern Celtic languages include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>cam<\/strong> [kaum\u02e0] = bend, bent, crooked, crookedness, fraud; to bend, crook, distort in Irish<\/li>\n<li><strong>cam<\/strong> [kaum] = bent, crooked, awry, not straight, squinty, wry, one-eyed; bend, curve, trick in Scottish Gaelic<\/li>\n<li><strong>cam<\/strong> = bent, crooked, deceitful, intricate, knotty, perverse, rakish, wry, wrong in Manx<\/li>\n<li><strong>cam<\/strong> [kam] = crooked, bent, hunch-backed, distorted, wry, bowed, curved, looped, winding in Welsh<\/li>\n<li><strong>kamm<\/strong> = bent, crooked, erroneous, error, wrong in Cornish<\/li>\n<li><strong>kamm<\/strong> = angled, bent, bend in Breton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Proto-Celtic word <em>*kambos<\/em> is the root of the Galician words <em>camba<\/em> (doorjamb of an oven, handmill), <strong>cambar<\/strong> (to bend), <strong>cambiar<\/strong> (to change) [<a href=\"https:\/\/digalego.xunta.gal\/es\/termo\/11830\/camba\">source<\/a>]. The word <strong>cambiar<\/strong> (to change) in Spanish and Portuguese, and the word <strong>change<\/strong> in English come from the same Celtic roots [<a href=\"hhttps:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/cambio#Latin\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><em>*kambos<\/em> is possibly also the root of the French word as <em>camus<\/em> [ka.my] (flat-nosed, snub-nosed) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/camus#Old_French\">source<\/a>], which was borrowed into English as <strong>camous\/camoys<\/strong> (flat, depressed, crooked nose &#8211; used until the 19th century) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/camous#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The  English word <strong>kam<\/strong> (crooked, awry) was borrowed from the Welsh word <strong>cam<\/strong>, but is no longer used [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/kam#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The name <strong>Campbell<\/strong> comes from the Scottish Gaelic <strong>Caimbeul<\/strong>, from <strong>cam<\/strong> (crooked) and <strong>beul<\/strong> (mouth) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Campbell\">source<\/a>], while <strong>Cameron<\/strong> comes from <strong>Camshr\u00f2n<\/strong>, from <strong>cam<\/strong> (crooked) and <strong>sr\u00f2n<\/strong> (nose) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Cameron\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>More details of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2022\/06\/22\/crooked\/\">crooked<\/a> words in Celtic languages can be found on the Celtiadur, a blog where I explore connections between Celtic languages in more depth. 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It comes from the Proto-Indo-European word *kh\u2082em- (to arch, bend, curve), from *(s)\u1e31h\u2082embos (crooked)  [source].\n\nD...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/crooked.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5672\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2334-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/crooked.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/crooked.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/crooked.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/crooked.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2334-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/crooked.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"crooked.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this episode we\u2019re looking at some crooked and twisted words. In Proto-Celtic, the word *kambos meant twisted, crooked or bent. It comes from the Proto-Indo-European word *kh\u2082em- (to arch, bend, curve), from *(s)\u1e31h\u2082embos (crooked) [source]. Descendents in the modern Celtic languages include: cam [kaum\u02e0] = bend, bent, crooked, crookedness, fraud; to bend, crook, distort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,122,37,20,56,23,117,6,4,50,36,1,27,94,59,5,28,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breton","category-celtic-pathways","category-cornish","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-gaulish","category-irish","category-language","category-latin","category-manx","category-podcast","category-portuguese","category-proto-celtic","category-proto-indo-european","category-scottish-gaelic","category-spanish","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2336,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions\/2336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}