"cam" meaning in Irish

See cam in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /kaumˠ/ [Munster], /kɑːmˠ/ [Galway], /kamˠ/ [Mayo, Ulster]
Etymology: From Old Irish camm. The sense “bent, gay” is a semantic loan from English bent. Etymology templates: {{dercat|ga|cel-pro|ine-pro|inh=1}}, {{inh|ga|sga|camm}} Old Irish camm, {{m-g|bent, gay}} “bent, gay”, {{semantic loan|ga|en|bent|nocap=1}} semantic loan from English bent Head templates: {{head|ga|adjective|genitive singular masculine|caim|genitive singular feminine|caime||{{{gsf2}}}|plural|cama||{{{pl2}}}|comparative|caime|||head=}} cam (genitive singular masculine caim, genitive singular feminine caime, plural cama, comparative caime), {{ga-adj|comp=caime|gsf=caime|gsm=caim|pl=cama}} cam (genitive singular masculine caim, genitive singular feminine caime, plural cama, comparative caime) Inflection templates: {{ga-decl-adj|c|am|gsf=aime|gsm=aim|pl=~a}}, {{ga-mut}} Forms: caim [genitive, masculine, singular], caime [feminine, genitive, singular], cama [plural], caime [comparative], no-table-tags [table-tags], cam [masculine, nominative, singular], cham [feminine, nominative, singular], cama [nominative, plural], chama [nominative, plural], chaim [masculine, singular, vocative], cham [feminine, singular, vocative], cama [plural, vocative], chaim [genitive, masculine, singular], caime [feminine, genitive, singular], cama [genitive, plural, strong], cam [genitive, plural, weak], cam [dative, masculine, singular], cham [dative, masculine, singular], cham [dative, feminine, singular], chaim [archaic, dative, feminine, singular], cama [dative, plural], chama [dative, plural], níos caime [comparative], is caime [superlative], no-table-tags [table-tags], cam [mutation, mutation-radical], cham [lenition, mutation], gcam [eclipsis, mutation]
  1. crooked
    Sense id: en-cam-ga-adj-iT-uVfnC
  2. (offensive) bent (homosexual) Tags: offensive Synonyms: lúbtha
    Sense id: en-cam-ga-adj-42iCYfDA Categories (other): Irish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Irish entries with incorrect language header: 28 72
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: caime (english: crookedness) [feminine], camchosach (english: bandy-legged) [adjective], cam-mhuin (english: wryneck) [feminine] Related terms: camán (english: shinty stick) [masculine], camóg (english: crook) [feminine]

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "crookedness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "caime"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "bandy-legged",
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "camchosach"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "wryneck",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cam-mhuin"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "yol",
            "2": "caam",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Yola: caam",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Yola: caam"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "cel-pro",
        "3": "ine-pro",
        "inh": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "dercat"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "sga",
        "3": "camm"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish camm",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bent, gay"
      },
      "expansion": "“bent, gay”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "bent",
        "nocap": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "semantic loan from English bent",
      "name": "semantic loan"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Irish camm. The sense “bent, gay” is a semantic loan from English bent.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "caim",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caime",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cama",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caime",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ga-decl-adj",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cham",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cama",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chama",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chaim",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cham",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cama",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chaim",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caime",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cama",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural",
        "strong"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural",
        "weak"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cham",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cham",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chaim",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cama",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chama",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "níos caime",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "is caime",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ga-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cam",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "mutation",
        "mutation-radical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cham",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "lenition",
        "mutation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gcam",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "eclipsis",
        "mutation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "10": "cama",
        "11": "",
        "12": "{{{pl2}}}",
        "13": "comparative",
        "14": "caime",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "2": "adjective",
        "3": "genitive singular masculine",
        "4": "caim",
        "5": "genitive singular feminine",
        "6": "caime",
        "7": "",
        "8": "{{{gsf2}}}",
        "9": "plural",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "cam (genitive singular masculine caim, genitive singular feminine caime, plural cama, comparative caime)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "comp": "caime",
        "gsf": "caime",
        "gsm": "caim",
        "pl": "cama"
      },
      "expansion": "cam (genitive singular masculine caim, genitive singular feminine caime, plural cama, comparative caime)",
      "name": "ga-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "c",
        "2": "am",
        "gsf": "aime",
        "gsm": "aim",
        "pl": "~a"
      },
      "name": "ga-decl-adj"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "ga-mut"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "shinty stick",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "camán"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "crook",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "camóg"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "crooked"
      ],
      "id": "en-cam-ga-adj-iT-uVfnC",
      "links": [
        [
          "crooked",
          "crooked"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "28 72",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "bent (homosexual)"
      ],
      "id": "en-cam-ga-adj-42iCYfDA",
      "links": [
        [
          "bent",
          "bent"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(offensive) bent (homosexual)"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "lúbtha"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "offensive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kaumˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Munster"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kɑːmˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Galway"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kamˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Mayo",
        "Ulster"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cam"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Irish adjectives",
    "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Irish lemmas",
    "Irish semantic loans from English",
    "Irish terms derived from English",
    "Irish terms derived from Old Irish",
    "Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic",
    "Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Irish terms inherited from Old Irish",
    "Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic",
    "Irish terms with IPA pronunciation"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "crookedness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "caime"
    },
    {
      "english": "bandy-legged",
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "camchosach"
    },
    {
      "english": "wryneck",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cam-mhuin"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "yol",
            "2": "caam",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Yola: caam",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Yola: caam"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "cel-pro",
        "3": "ine-pro",
        "inh": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "dercat"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "sga",
        "3": "camm"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish camm",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bent, gay"
      },
      "expansion": "“bent, gay”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "bent",
        "nocap": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "semantic loan from English bent",
      "name": "semantic loan"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Irish camm. The sense “bent, gay” is a semantic loan from English bent.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "caim",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caime",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cama",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caime",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ga-decl-adj",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cham",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cama",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chama",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chaim",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cham",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cama",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chaim",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "caime",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cama",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural",
        "strong"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural",
        "weak"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cham",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cham",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chaim",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cama",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chama",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "níos caime",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "is caime",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ga-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cam",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "mutation",
        "mutation-radical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cham",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "lenition",
        "mutation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gcam",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "eclipsis",
        "mutation"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "11": "",
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        "14": "caime",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
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        "3": "genitive singular masculine",
        "4": "caim",
        "5": "genitive singular feminine",
        "6": "caime",
        "7": "",
        "8": "{{{gsf2}}}",
        "9": "plural",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "cam (genitive singular masculine caim, genitive singular feminine caime, plural cama, comparative caime)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
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        "pl": "cama"
      },
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    }
  ],
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    {
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        "2": "am",
        "gsf": "aime",
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        "pl": "~a"
      },
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    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "ga-mut"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "english": "shinty stick",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "camán"
    },
    {
      "english": "crook",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "camóg"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "crooked"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "crooked",
          "crooked"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Irish offensive terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "bent (homosexual)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bent",
          "bent"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(offensive) bent (homosexual)"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "lúbtha"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "offensive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kaumˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Munster"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kɑːmˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Galway"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kamˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Mayo",
        "Ulster"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cam"
}
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  "path": [
    "cam"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "adjective",
  "title": "cam",
  "trace": ""
}

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  ],
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  "subsection": "adjective",
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Irish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.