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Lithuanian
Etymology
From dialectal Polish chamujło (“tyke, oik, peasant”), from cham (“ditto”), from Ancient Greek Χάμ (Khám, “Ham, son of Noah”), from Hebrew חָם.[1][2]
Compare dialectal Belarusian хамуйла (xamujla, “ribald, oik, gruff man”), хамула (xamula, “loser”).
Noun
kamùila m (plural kamùilos) stress pattern 1 (obsolete)
- (derogatory) uneducated, untidy, scruffy person
- (derogatory) ribald, lout
Declension
References
- ^ Rolandas Kregždys (2016) “kamùila”, in Lietuvių kalbos polonizmų žodynas [Dictionary of Polish loanwords in Lithuanian], page 346
- ^ Rolandas Kregždys (2018) “Onyms and appellatives of onomastic origin
of the Dictionary of Polish Loanwords in Lithuanian”, in Onomastyka-neohumanistyka-nauki społeczne, →DOI, page 275
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