# kam

Pronunciation: say "KAM" /kæm/

## Adjective

1. Crooked, or turned to one side out of its proper position. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Bent or crooked, or not in the right position.

## 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.

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