κάμαξ

Furnée compares the word with ἀμάκιον (amákion). According to Beekes, the suffix "-ακ-" is highly frequent in Pre-Greek.

κάμαξ • (kámax) f (genitive κάμᾰκος); third declension

1. vine pole, prop
   • 3rd century BCE, Leonidas of Tarentum, chapter 731, in Greek Anthology, Book VII‎:

     ἄμπελος ὣς ἤδη κάμακι στηρίζομαι αὐτῷ σκηπανίῳ

     ámpelos hṑs ḗdē kámaki stērízomai autôi skēpaníōi

     I am already supported only by a prop like a vine

2. any pole or shaft
3. tiller
4. (in the plural) steering paddles
5. tent pole
6. perch for fowls

• “κάμαξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κάμαξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN