Camba

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English

Etymology

Ultimately from Galician Camba.

Proper noun

Camba (plural Cambas)

  1. A surname from Galician.

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Camba is the 31516th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 734 individuals. Camba is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (48.64%) and Hispanic/Latino (35.42%) individuals.

Galician

River Camba
San Xoán de Camba church, Castro Caldelas
Pazo de Camba manor house, Rodeiro

Etymology

From a local Celtic substrate language: from Proto-Celtic *kambos (“twisted, crooked”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to curve”). Compare German Chamb, a river in Germany and Czechia.[1]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Camba

  1. A river in Ourense, Galicia, which flows for some 56 km before draining into the Bibei, a subaffluent of the Minho river
  2. an ancient county, Terra de Camba, today municipality of Rodeiro
  3. San Xoán de Camba (a parish of Rodeiro, Pontevedra, Galicia)
  4. San Salvador de Camba (a parish of Rodeiro, Pontevedra, Galicia)
  5. Santa Baia de Camba (a parish of Rodeiro, Pontevedra, Galicia)
  6. A parish of Laza, Ourense, Galicia
  7. A parish of Castro Caldelas, Ourense, Galicia
  8. A village in Ourol parish, Ourol, Lugo, Galicia
  9. A village in Xuances parish, Xove, Lugo, Galicia
  10. A village in Samarugo parish, Vilalba, Lugo, Galicia
  11. a surname

References

  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Camba”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • “Camba” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
  • “Camba” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ Greule, Albrecht (2014) Deutsches Gewässernamenbuch: Etymologie der Gewässernamen und der dazugehörigen Gebiets-, Siedlungs- und Flurnamen, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 81
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