kam
- 1Crooked, or turned to one side out of its proper position.
Note
The word came into English from Welsh cam, "bent, crooked," which has kin in Scottish Gaelic and Irish cam. Shakespeare puts it to figurative use in Coriolanus, where Sicinius answers a speech with "This is clean kam" (printed kamme): the reasoning has gone completely awry, clean meaning "utterly." It has long since dropped out of English and is met only in reading.
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Origin
From Welsh cam (“bent, crooked, distorted”), going back through Middle and Old Welsh cam and Proto-Brythonic *kam to Proto-Celtic *kambos. It is related to Scottish Gaelic and Irish cam, French camus (“flat-nosed”) and, more distantly, Ancient Greek σκαμβός (skambós, “crooked, bent, bow-legged”), and is a doublet of camous.